On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:37 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Past sponsors not on the advisory board and former advisory board members > include the likes of HP, Supersonic Imagine, Fluendo, TI, AMD, Linux > Foundation, Lanedo, ACCESS, LiMo, Mandriva (could try Mageia), and Openismus.
I used to work for ACCESS, and to the best of my knowledge, they're no longer doing much or any work with GNOME technologies. In any case, I doubt they'd be a good candidate for sponsorship now. > Other potential sponsors, related to recent strategic moves, would be Samsung > (we would need to make a case for the relevance of GUADEC to Tizen), ST > Micro, Freescale, Qualcomm (or QuIC), (for all of these we need to strengthen > our ARM story), CodeThink. A few more possibilities, both for GUADEC sponsorship and being on the GNOME advisory board: Lab126, the division of Amazon that develops the Kindle. Their open-source tree shows they use a ton of GNOME technologies in the Kindle, including GTK+ and WebKitGTK. Some contact names there are Saldy Antony (manages WebKit development), David Berbessou (Director of Engineering), and Howard Look (VP Software). TouchTunes is a Montreal-based company that uses GNOME technologies to build digital jukeboxes. Contacts there are Francois Beaumier (Director, Music Applications Development) and Michael Tooker (senior VP for technology and operations). Linaro is a consortium of ARM chip companies and related software firms that supplies and promotes a common Linux development platform. Contacts include Michael Opdenacker (Community Manager) and Christian Reis (VP of Engineering). Tivo's open-source tree shows they use some lower-level GNOME technologies including libxml2 and libxslt. A contact there is Karl Glynn (Senior Director, Software Engineering). Garmin used GNOME technologies in their GPS devices in 2009, but it's not clear whether they're still doing it. > Typically for sponsors, we have, in the past 2-3 years, preferred a model > where we think holistically about how much money we ask companies for during > the year, through the board, and have the Executive Director handle these > relationships. Stormy did this in the past, and I'm sure she would help Karen > out in doing the same again this year. This is a great way to do things. I had considered approaching some of the companies around Silicon Valley, but didn't want to interfere with any other money-raising activities with the same companies, and in any case I'm going to be unable to do anything like that for a couple of months. Best regards, Bob _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
