> ----- Original message ----- > From: "Dave Neary" <[email protected]> > To: "Nathan Willis" <[email protected]> > cc: "Randall Arnold" <[email protected]>, "MeeGo community" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?) > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:58:03 +0100 > > >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). >
Good points, Dave.� I used them in the bug report:� http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12723 Randy -------------------------------------------------------------- Ovi Mail: Making email access easy http://mail.ovi.com
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