Hi Jean. Perhaps you should contact our Marketing team directly at [email protected] , I doubt anyone on list will be able to answer you about this directly.
Some of what you are asking may also fall into the realm of the conference planners team , but try Marketing first. See http://apache.org/press/ and http://apache.org/foundation/conferences.html for more info Thanks Gav... > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean Hollis Weber [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 14 August 2011 1:17 PM > To: ApacheOOo > Subject: Funds for marketing efforts? > > This is a request for general information about potential funding from > Apache for marketing AOOo to end-users (both individuals and companies/ > organisations) at conferences those end-users attend (e.g., librarians, > educators, technical communicators). Typically a marketing team might have > a booth at an associated trade show or similar. The booths can often be > obtained free, but there are costs involved with (for example) items to > display or give away, banners and signs, booth attendants' > travel and accommodation expenses, and so on. Booth attendants usually > are not speakers at the conference. > > I realise that for any specific event a proposal would need to be made, but > I'm looking for some indication of whether Apache would consider covering > this sort of marketing expense. AFAIK, OOo rarely made money available for > marketing at conferences, and then mainly for conferences where the > "marketing" was aimed at recruiting developers, not "selling" > potential end-users on the value of the product. Also AFAIK, that is one > reason why several of the not-for-profit organisations were set up in > different countries: so money was available for local outreach needs. > > --Jean
