Hi all,

Attached the announcements for the Desktop Summit Sponsorship. As you know, 
Intel, Collabora and SUSE will be the main (Platinum and Gold) sponsors, hence 
we'd like to let you know that these announcements will go out on the Desktop 
Summit press channels on Tuesday, 15:00 UTC.

We'd appreciate it if you would either issue your own or echo these 
announcements.

Any input or suggestions are of course welcome.

Greetings,
Jos Poortvliet
& The Desktop Summit Team
<p>We are pleased to announce that the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin will be 
supported by Intel as Platinum sponsor. The event also welcomes Collabora and 
SUSE as Gold partners. The organization is delighted with the community spirit 
of these generous corporate partners. Mirko Boehm, Lead organizer of the 
Desktop Summit, said: <em>"Their support is essential for the Desktop Summit's 
efforts to bring together Free Software developers from all around the world to 
work in a collaborative spirit on the next generation desktop 
technology."</em></p>

<p>Dawn Foster, MeeGo Community Manager stated: <em>"Intel is happy to sponsor 
the Desktop Summit as a way to support the many projects that we use and 
contribute to on a regular basis. It's important to us to work closely with 
open source projects - and this is one way to do that."</em></p>

<p>Christian Schaller, Marketing Manager at Collabora told us: <em>"At 
Collabora we are excited to support the Desktop Summit as we feel it is one of 
the core events in terms of moving the open source ecosystem forward. A lot of 
open source innovation happens on the desktop first before being widely 
deployed on all kinds of systems and devices. As the leader in the fields of 
multimedia and real time communications Collabora are very much a part of that 
effort. We look forward to meeting up with and engaging with the everyone at 
the Desktop Summit."</em></p>

<p><em>"SUSE is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Desktop Summit 2011,"</em> 
said Michael Miller, vice president of Global Alliances and Marketing at 
SUSE.<em> ?Cross 
project collaboration is a core value at SUSE and we are committed to wide 
interoperability and open communication. Our support of openSUSE at the Desktop 
Summit demonstrates our continued commitment to a strong Free and Open Source 
ecosystem."</em></p>

<p>Aside from the Platinum and Gold sponsors, we are happy to welcome the 
following Silver sponsors for this event:
<ul>
<li>Canonical</li>
<li>Google</li>
<li>Igalia</li>
<li>The Linux Foundation</li>
<li>Qt</li>
<li>Red Hat</li>
</ul>
</p>

<p>The following are our Bronze level sponsors:
<ul>
<li>Lanedo</li>
<li>Mozilla</li>
<li>openshine</li>
</ul>
</p>

<p>Their support is greatly appreciated</p>

<p>Our media partners for the Desktop Summit will be golem.de and Linux 
Magazine</p>

<p>The organizing team would like to thank our sponsors on behalf of the GNOME 
and KDE communities! We are still looking for more sponsors, please contact us 
if you are interested (details below).</p>

<h2>About the Desktop Summit</h2>

<p>GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) and Akademy (KDE 
annual world summit) are the world's largest gatherings of people involved in 
Free Desktop and mobile user interfaces. Over a thousand participants are 
expected at the Desktop Summit this year, covering both the GNOME and KDE 
projects as well as related technologies. Organizers welcome developers, 
artists, translators, community organizers, users and representatives from 
government, education, businesses. Anyone who shares an interest in a Free 
Desktop is encouraged to participate.</p>

<p>GNOME and KDE are Free Software communities that drive the user interfaces 
of many Linux-powered devices--smartphones, laptops, desktops, personal media 
centers. 2011 is the second summit organized collaboratively by the two 
communities.</p>

<h2>Contact</h2>
<p>Contact information of the Desktop Summit team can be found on <a 
href="https://www.desktopsummit.org/contact";>www.desktopsummit.org/contact</a>. 
For press inquiries please contact Jos Poortvliet, <a 
href="jospoortvl...@gmail.com">jospoortvl...@gmail.com</a>, phone +31622377545.

<p>If you would like to discuss sponsorship, please contact us: <a 
href="mailto:ds-sponsor...@desktopsummit.org";>ds-sponsor...@desktopsummit.org</a></p>
Intel, Collabora and SUSE to be main sponsors of the Desktop Summit

We are pleased to announce that the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin will be 
supported by Intel as Platinum sponsor. The event also welcomes Collabora and 
SUSE as Gold partners. The organization is delighted with the community spirit 
of these generous corporate partners. Mirko Boehm, Lead organizer of the 
Desktop Summit, said: "Their support is essential for the Desktop Summit's 
efforts to bring together Free Software developers from all around the world to 
work in a collaborative spirit on the next generation desktop technology."

Dawn Foster, MeeGo Community Manager stated: "Intel is happy to sponsor the 
Desktop Summit as a way to support the many projects that we use and contribute 
to on a regular basis. It's important to us to work closely with open source 
projects - and this is one way to do that."

Christian Schaller, Marketing Manager at Collabora told us: "At Collabora we 
are excited to support the Desktop Summit as we feel it is one of the core 
events in terms of moving the open source ecosystem forward. A lot of open 
source innovation happens on the desktop first before being widely deployed on 
all kinds of systems and devices. As the leader in the fields of multimedia and 
real time communications Collabora are very much a part of that effort. We look 
forward to meeting up with and engaging with the everyone at the Desktop 
Summit."

"SUSE is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Desktop Summit 2011," said Michael 
Miller, vice president of Global Alliances and Marketing at SUSE. ?Cross 
project collaboration is a core value at SUSE and we are committed to wide 
interoperability and open communication. Our support of openSUSE at the Desktop 
Summit demonstrates our continued commitment to a strong Free and Open Source 
ecosystem."

Aside from the Platinum and Gold sponsors, we are happy to welcome the 
following Silver sponsors for this event:
Canonical
Google
Igalia
The Linux Foundation
Qt
Red Hat

The following are our Bronze level sponsors:
Lanedo
Mozilla
openshine

Their support is greatly appreciated!

Our media partners for the Desktop Summit will be golem.de and Linux Magazin.

The organizing team would like to thank our sponsors on behalf of the GNOME and 
KDE communities! We are still looking for more sponsors, please contact us if 
you are interested (details below).

About the Desktop Summit

GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) and Akademy (KDE annual 
world summit) are the world's largest gatherings of people involved in Free 
Desktop and mobile user interfaces. Over a thousand participants are expected 
at the Desktop Summit this year, covering both the GNOME and KDE projects as 
well as related technologies. Organizers welcome developers, artists, 
translators, community organizers, users and representatives from government, 
education, businesses. Anyone who shares an interest in a Free Desktop is 
encouraged to participate.

GNOME and KDE are Free Software communities that drive the user interfaces of 
many Linux-powered devices--smartphones, laptops, desktops, personal media 
centers. 2011 is the second summit organized collaboratively by the two 
communities.

Contact

Contact information of the Desktop Summit team can be found on 
www.desktopsummit.org/contact. For press inquiries please contact Jos 
Poortvliet, jospoortvl...@gmail.com, phone +31622377545.

If you would like to discuss sponsorship, please contact us: 
ds-sponsor...@desktopsummit.org

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