2011/1/22 Brian Warner <[email protected]> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Randall Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ----- Original message ----- >> From: "Jarkko Moilanen" <[email protected]> >> To: "Foster, Dawn M" <[email protected]> >> cc: "Randall Arnold" <[email protected]>, "MeeGo community" < >> [email protected]>, "Willis Nathan" <[email protected]>, >> "Brian Warner" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, >> should we?) >> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:46:27 +0200 >> >> >> >> 2011/1/21 Foster, Dawn M <[email protected]> >> >>> >>> On Jan 20, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Jarkko Moilanen wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > Interesting topic and we have experience about this already. We (MeeGo >>> Network Finland) approached Linux Foundation and asked if they could sponsor >>> our event by paying the flights for 2 or 3 speakers in MeeGo Summit FI 2011. >>> They did not respond. Perhaps our request was unjust or something. >>> > >>> >>> >>> How did you approach the Linux Foundation? An email to a specific person, >>> and if so, who? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Dawn >>> >>> Email was posted to 'General Contact' (info@) which says: "mail to this >> address is properly routed to the appropriate recipients" since >> more appropriate email address was not listed in LF contact >> information. Furthermore, a colleague of mine contacted (emailed) *Jim >> Zemlin directly (probably via his secretary though). * >> >> >> /Jarkko >> >> -- >> --------------- >> Community Manager (MNFI, Meego Network Finland) >> Organizer (TMN, Tampere Meego Network) >> Email: jarkko dot moilanen at meegonetwork dot fi >> Location: Tampere, Finland >> >> More info: http://meegonetwork.fi >> Discussions: irc.freenode.net#meego-fi >> >> >> I doubt the request was seen as unjust. The entry points for this >> activity have just been as fuzzy as the processes. My hope is that the >> recent addition of Brian Warner will help in that regard. I spoke briefly >> with Brian a few days ago and have the impression he is enthusiastic about >> helping this community wih outreach and marketing. I hope to meet with both >> him and Ibrahim in person as soon as possible for strategy talks. >> >> I was hoping for more discussion on this topic but either the interest >> isn't there, people are misunderstanding the subject lines or maybe few have >> the time to contribute to the dialog. Regardless, I will use the new >> bugzilla policy structure to start driving solutions, and make sure the >> requests are highly visible so everyone will find it easy to participate. >> Please vote and comment as the bug reports appear! >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MeeGo-community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community >> >> > Hi all, > > As Randy mentioned, I'm just coming on board with the MeeGo project. I'll > send out a note in a little bit with some background and how I'll be able to > help. Before doing so, though, I'd like to lend some insight into a few > things. > > The MeeGo project, as a workgroup of the Linux Foundation, is funded by the > companies participating in this project and the Linux Foundation manages the > budget of the project on behalf and with pre-approvals from the funding > companies. What this means is that The Linux Foundation is not able to > process this sort of request unless it is part of the budget planning > process and approved by the companies who contribute the funding. > > This is, however, totally independent from the Linux Foundation Community > Developer Travel Fund, which is specifically in place to support community > developers at large: > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/developer/travel > > Having said that, we may need to setup a process for taking such > MeeGo-specific requests other than sending emails to > [email protected], which receives hundreds of weekly spam messages > (Jarkko, unfortunately it's probably how a response to your email request > was overlooked...) > > Brian >
Yes indeed. I was not born yesterday and my hopes were not high after sending email to commonly spammed info address, but I had to try anyway. Nevertheless, we still would appreciate any help from Linux Foundation if the schedule allows it eg setting up process for it does not take months. Should I make the support request again or what? /Jarkko -- --------------- Community Manager (MNFI, Meego Network Finland) Organizer (TMN, Tampere Meego Network) Email: jarkko dot moilanen at meegonetwork dot fi Location: Tampere, Finland More info: http://meegonetwork.fi Discussions: irc.freenode.net#meego-fi
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