On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 17:58 +0100, ext Dave Neary wrote: > 2. MeeGo as sponsor of a general free software or mobile event
(...) > Centralising a fund with the Linux Foundation for 1 and 3 makes sense, > but 2 won't work, I think - there needs to be someone responsible for > strategy & resource allocation, and I don't see this getting done in the > open (witness the difficulty in coming up with a list of events that > MeeGo should sponsor this year). About this specific point, the first thing to be discussed would be whether it makes sense to have the MeeGo project sponsoring an event, paying to have a MeeGo presence in the event. I'm all for pushing MeeGo speakers, activities, booths and merchandising to relevant local or global events organized by third parties - just like many strong and consolidated free software projects do. We can consider funding the costs of those activities, of course. Paying to become a sponsor is another thing, though. It's something usually done directly by profit or non-profit organizations owning the money. For instance, we have seen Intel, Nokia or The Linux Foundation dedicating funds to become sponsors in free software events. Neighbors, contributors and competitors of the MeeGo project seem to apply the same rule. -- Quim _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
