<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/15 Nathan Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com" target="_blank">nwillis@glyphography.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> > Two, a question -- is the plan to incorporate any non-individual (ie,<br> > corporate) supporters into the pledgie fundraising, or keep the two<br> > separate?  Consolidating them would be a good way to prime the pump, I'd<br> > think.<br> <br> </div><br>Pledgie = community support<br> <br> It's up to community to be individuals or a corporation :)<br> <br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div>What I mean is, should we contact the corporations directly and ask them to go to the pledgie page on their own, or try to get a commitment from them out-of-band?  I'm sort of looking for help understanding what happened in years past.</blockquote> <div><br>Hi Nathan,<br><br>Last year was the first year when we had a Pledgie campaign. We had "corporate" sponsors *and* community effort that was a big plus to help us reach the budget target. I understand your questionning about splitting the effort or having one single channel (Pledgie) or more (Plegdie plus direct corporate sponsorship) and I think — unless we do have an advice telling us to do otherwise — that we're going to do both again this year. It might — and I guess it sure will — happen that for some reasons a corporate sponsorship might just be not possible in some cases but then a corporate leader would still want to help us on a personnal basis.<br> <br>I think we need to let the more channels open to accomodate various ways of letting the money in. To me, this is the most flexible way of handling this campaign.<br><br>Now, as to how and what to tell the corporate leaders who would want to show their support to LGM projects, I think that we want to stress that LGM is the most important annual meeting for the graphic projects ecosystem and the gathering of the developpers once a year is a necessity for these projects to be further developped and harmonized together. LGM is showing more and more maturity each year, gathering more developpers and more projects together. LGM is in its fourth year of existence. Etc.<br> <br>If you want to write a press release, plus a short text for the sponsors, please try coordinating the efforts with Christoph, who I cc here.<br><br>Cheer!<br><br>And thanks a lot for the good hand! We need that!<br><br> Louis<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div><br> <br>Thanks,<br clear="all">Nate<br>-- <br>nathan.p.willis<br><a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com" target="_blank">nwillis@glyphography.com</a><br> </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> CREATE mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Louis Desjardins<br>Organisateur principal / Main organiser<br>Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 - Montréal<br><a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org" target="_blank">www.libregraphicsmeeting.org</a><br> +1 514 934 1353 HAE / EDT GMT -5<br>