Dell ships computers preloaded with Linux. Perhaps they are interested in cultivating customers within the open source community.
- Susan > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:31:06 -0500 > From: Jon Phillips <j...@rejon.org> > Subject: Re: [CREATE] Access to LGM website > To: Gregory Pittman <gpitt...@iglou.com> > Cc: create@lists.freedesktop.org > Message-ID: <1300609866.4094.11.camel@slobook> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 13:37 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > On 03/19/2011 10:19 AM, j...@rejon.org wrote: > > > Have youbguya donated or blogged about the upcoming Conference? > > > > One of the things I think we should address formally is the idea of paid > > advertising on the LGM site. I'm not talking about just any old ads > > regarding p3nis enlargement or the benefits of acai berries, but some > > graphics-related ads (example: Adobe). Or even various players in the > > computing realm, open source or not (Ubuntu, Dell, HP, IBM, RedHat, > Google). > > > > We live currently (subject to change) in a time where it seems to be > > accepted in some form, at various sites where free information is > > provided, that some ads will be seen on the sidebars that pay the way > > for this free information. > > Sure, I'm game for targeted ads if they are relevant, but not for > generic unrelated google text ads. There is still some void in finding > targeted ads for projects like ours, which essentially is matching > compatible companies who can benefit from our community and vice-versa. > I know some people working on this, but its not there yet... > > > > > Have we extended a special invitation for those involved in Google > > Summer of Code to come see what LGM is all about, so we can generate > > some esteem on their part for our various projects? It doesn't matter if > > this year's GSoC is already decided by the time LGM2011 happens. > > I asked Google, and Google is giving us 5K so far, but yes, I will > followup in the thread about GSoC participating. I've become friends > with the new GSoC manager, Carol. > > > Have we rolled out the red carpet (so to speak) for HP, with its heavy > > investment and involvement in graphics printing, to be an honored guest > > at LGM? (With the tacit backup of contacting Canon or Epson or Brother > > or Lexmark -- ok, we'll be happy with money, but we want you to come too) > > I emailed Keith Packard at Intel and BDale at HP, hoping their companies > will sponsor, but yes, hope that we can get more support and > participation from people from those companies. We've never had a good > time getting the other printing companies on-board. They redirect to > lame sales people. > > > Have we talked to any of these people about linking to LGM from their > > sites? (we're really not threatening to them in any way -- we're pretty > > benign compared to their real competitors) > > That's an interesting idea. Google is the most healthy in this aspect, > but unless there is a deeper committment, most companies have a hard > time promoting others. > > > > > Let's make LGM2011 viral. > > Other ideas? Keep them flowing! The most potent viral campaigns are > original content, and not gimmicks. Things like LGMag, etc are great, > but videos of me and eric hahahahhahaa ;) just kidding... > > Jon > > > -- > Jon Phillips > http://fabricatorz.com > +1.415.830.3884 (global) > > > >
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