If you want to cc sponsonr...@guadec.org, we can help respond to people. Stormy
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > Stormy, > > I've contacted Vodafone Portugal and waiting for them to reply me with > the contact from someone in Vodafone NL that can evaluate this proposal > for sponsorship on Guadec. > > I'm also waiting on a callback from Logitech (Switzerland) to send > proposal for Guadec. > > It's being a bit harder on the other dutch mobile operators, as I only > have dealt with them through Product Managers and they are not the right > people for this kind of contact, but I'm working on it. > > As said before, I'm ignoring all the MVNO's as I don't believe they > will be interested, most of the them if not all explore small market > niches that are of no interest to us. > > I'm going to check other Benelux companies that suit this. > > How do you want to handle the contacts? Wanna take over on those > interested? I really would love to pass those interest to someone who is > directly involved on this event. > > nelson > > > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:44 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > > Nelson, > > > > Here's the brochure. If you could help us expand to mobile companies, > > that'd be awesome. > > > > Stormy > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Nelson Marques <07...@ipam.pt> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 09:15 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > Hi Nelson, > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nelson Marques > > <07...@ipam.pt> > > > wrote: > > > About Guadec, have you contacted Vodafone? or any > > other big > > > Mobile > > > operators? I would assume that pushing the right > > keys, they > > > would tag > > > alongside with Guadec. Also try to have small local > > business > > > present, > > > and push hardware manufacturers into it aswell. > > Tryed BenQ ? > > > it's a > > > Benelux based company, should be interest from them. > > > Having a company like BenQ with us could help. > > > > > > Are you willing to identify and approach some of these > > companies about > > > GUADEC sponsorship? We have a brochure, so the main work is > > > identifying contacts, approaching them, giving a pitch and > > then > > > following up with them. (And following up with them. And > > following up > > > with them. ;) > > > > > > Stormy > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I can dig some information about possible interested > > companies and try > > to approach them. I do know that some are more friendly > > because I've > > contacted about 280 Operators (including MVNO's) in Europe in > > the past. > > > > Before approaching we need to know a couple of things: > > > > # What benefits can they take from sponsoring (ex: how are we > > going to > > advertise them, expected visitors) > > > > # What do we need from them (ex: money, merchandising, etc) > > > > # I would advice also than when applies, we should ask for > > participation as well, like providing speakers to conferences. > > This get > > touchy as some companies are related to users and opensource, > > but in a > > different way from us... for instance the emerging market for > > netbooks > > and tables is of interest to Vodafone as they provide carrier > > data > > services through GSM Networks. They are attacking this niche, > > but the > > issue is how we relate it with open source. So, this needs > > some > > thinking. > > > > > > Taking a look into potential companies that can help us. I do > > have a > > background in the Netherlands, as I lived there for almost 2 > > years, I > > can most likely get some contacts from companies like > > Logitech. > > > > Point me the material that we have already done. As you now > > my english > > is not native, and before I contact them, I'll send to the > > list a > > general message so that people can fix it correctly and I'll > > take it > > from there. > > > > I'll place some effort on this one. It would help if we have > > a program > > already available for the event and a list of > > activities/participation's. > > > > > > I'll be in touch about this. > > > > NM > > > > > >
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