Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-21 Thread Foster, Dawn M
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.

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-21 Thread Jarkko Moilanen
2011/1/21 Foster, Dawn M dawn.m.fos...@intel.com 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

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-21 Thread Dave Neary
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

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-21 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 17:58 +0100, ext Dave Neary wrote: 2. MeeGo as sponsor of a general free software or mobile event (...) 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

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-21 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: About this specific point, the first thing to be discussed would be whether it makes sense to have the MeeGo project sponsoring an event, paying to have a MeeGo presence in the event. That all depends on bow you want to build the MeeGo brand. GNOME does not sponsor

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-21 Thread Brian Warner
Nathan‎ nwil...@glyphography.com, Brian Warner‎ brian.war...@linuxfoundation.org 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 dawn.m.fos...@intel.com On Jan 20, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Jarkko Moilanen

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-21 Thread Jarkko Moilanen
community‎ meego-community@meego.com, Willis Nathan‎ nwil...@glyphography.com, Brian Warner‎ brian.war...@linuxfoundation.org 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 dawn.m.fos...@intel.com

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Randall Arnold wrote: 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

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-20 Thread Randall Arnold
- Original message - From: Nathan Willis‎ nwil...@glyphography.com To: Dave Neary‎ dne...@maemo.org cc: Randall Arnold‎ tex...@ovi.com, MeeGo community‎ meego-community@meego.com Subject: Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?) Date: Thu, 20

Re: [MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-20 Thread Jarkko Moilanen
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.

[MeeGo-community] Defining MeeGo event sponsorship (or, should we?)

2011-01-19 Thread Randall Arnold
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