Guys can you handle? Begin forwarded message:
> From: Remco van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 11 July 2007 15:25:05 BDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sponsoring OSM > > > Hi Steve, > > I am also a contributor to the OSM community, and I would like to > inform you > of the fact that XS4ALL Internet BV, a leading internet provider in > the > Netherlands offers sponsorships for special innovative and opensource > projects. > > from the website of XS4ALL: > > "XS4ALL's sponsorship projects are projects which fit in with the > company's > social activities in the field of security, privacy and freedom of > speech or > in which open source philosophy, technical development and > innovation play a > central role." > > (you can read the whole text on: > http://www.xs4all.nl/uk/overxs4all/sponsoring/) > > Sponsoring may include sponsoring of hardware, storage, loadbalancing, > colocating in one of the datacenters XS4ALL owns. > > Also because AND gives their map of the Netherlands to OSM, it may be > getting busier on the OSM servers because of the increase of the dutch > users, and an OSM 'presence' in Amsterdam may also help a lot :) > > If you send a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling who you are, > what you > represent, and what OSM does, also mentioning what you need, I > think you > have a 90% chance of getting the sponsorship :) > > btw: I work at XS4ALL myself as a network/system administrator, but > I am not > at all involved with sponsoring requests xs4all receives. I just > know it > exists, and I think OSM should get a chance. > > Give it a thought, it's worth a try. > > Remco (user remco on the wiki) > > -- > Remco van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ _______________________________________________ Talk-nl mailing list Talk-nl@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-nl