Hi, Nathan Willis wrote: > From my own perspective as an event organizer, it's important to sharply > separate having-a-MeeGo-presence at an event from > underwriting-travel-for-MeeGo-representatives (and also from > underwriting-travel-for-MeeGo-speakers) and both from > MeeGo-donating-money-to-be-an-event-sponsor.
I was specifically thinking about sponsorship for local MeeGo meet-ups. You're right to point out that there are 3 very different things: 1. Paying expenses for people to attend a conference and speak or run a booth 2. MeeGo as sponsor of a general free software or mobile event 3. Helping local MeeGo event organisers to get speakers there, pay for drinks & pizza, etc. Centralising a fund with the Linux Foundation for 1 and 3 makes sense, but 2 won't work, I think - there needs to be someone responsible for strategy & resource allocation, and I don't see this getting done in the open (witness the difficulty in coming up with a list of events that MeeGo should sponsor this year). Cheers, Dave. -- Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
