Hi Drew, On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:43 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Before I follow up on the following I wanted to run it by the folks on > the list. > > At the SELF 2011 show last weekend I got talking to the folks in the KDE > booth. One of the items they had was discs for distribution. I mentioned > that we where about ready to release a LibO disc and started talking > about how they funded the production costs. > > The KDE folks informed me that OpenSUSE had actually flipped for the run > of discs and then proceeded to introduce me to the fellow working the > OpenSUSE booth. (BTW at SCALE earlier this year the OpenSUSE group where > all from Brazile, with one Aussie, while this time it was a local > fellow, Chuck Payne). > > Anyway - Chuck offered to put us in contact with the OpenSUSE community > manager, Jos Poortvliet, to see if they might be willing to do the same > for us. > > Chuck did indeed send an email to Jos about this and Jos responded to me > asking about how they might help. > > So - how do folks feel about this - should we ask them to help us with, > shall we ask for help funding a production run? > > Thanks > > Drew > Since OpenSUSE is now an official TDF sponsor, I think asking to fund a production run for dics to distribute at trade shows and the like is quite appropriate. (IMHO)
Thanks LyleC -- Lyle Cochran www.bytepowered.org [email protected] Ohio, U.S. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
