Greetings all, A new year is underway and thoughts of events, large and small, are on the minds of many.
Along those lines I have been discussing sponsorship of regional/local events such as the popular Texas Linuxfest with Nathan Willis and others.� Jari has brought the topic up for the MeeGo Finland network events.� MeeGo presents a unique challenge there that I hope we can find a way to resolve. Given its status as�a brand, it makes sense to draw on MeeGo for sponsorship of relevant events.� However, that brings up the question of budget. It's my understandng that while the Linux Foundation has been a sponsor of sorts at events, it is not underwriting them per se.� That of course would come under the purview of its own sponsors such as Nokia, Intel, et al. However, soliciting a corporate sponsor for an event that wants MeeGo as the listed sponsor gets sticky.� The question of benefit comes up.� Why would, say, Nokia underwite all or part of a regional/local event under the auspices of MeeGo?� (especially in an area where they would have little or no market presence.)� By all rights any benefits of exposure would (at least in theory) be spread across all MeeGo corporate sponsors. The easy resolution that comes to mind is a sponsorship pool administered by the Linux Foundation at their full discretion and fed by corporate sponsors.� But is this feasable? Another possibility is co-branded sponsorship. ie, "MeeGo via Nokia" or somesuch phrasing.� But even then, soliciting sponsorship could be an exercise in frustration since there are so many companies involved in MeeGo. So in summation: how do we achieve a "Sponsored by MeeGo" for regional/local events?� What would the scope be?� Or should such a thing even be conceived? Thanks in advance�for all thoughts. Randall (Randy) Arnold Forum Nokia Champion blog: http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com cell: +18177396806 irc: Texrat @ irc.freenode.net twitter: http://twitter.com/texrat linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tabletman -------------------------------------------------------------- Ovi Mail: Making email access easy http://mail.ovi.com
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