Dell ships computers preloaded with Linux. Perhaps they are interested in cultivating customers within the open source community. - Susan <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Message: 3 Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:31:06 -0500 From: Jon Phillips <<a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a>> Subject: Re: [CREATE] Access to LGM website To: Gregory Pittman <<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com">gpittman@iglou.com</a>> Cc: <a href="mailto:create@lists.freedesktop.org">create@lists.freedesktop.org</a> Message-ID: <1300609866.4094.11.camel@slobook> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 13:37 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 03/19/2011 10:19 AM, <a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a> wrote: > > Have youbguya donated or blogged about the upcoming Conference? > > One of the things I think we should address formally is the idea of paid > advertising on the LGM site. I'm not talking about just any old ads > regarding p3nis enlargement or the benefits of acai berries, but some > graphics-related ads (example: Adobe). Or even various players in the > computing realm, open source or not (Ubuntu, Dell, HP, IBM, RedHat, Google). > > We live currently (subject to change) in a time where it seems to be > accepted in some form, at various sites where free information is > provided, that some ads will be seen on the sidebars that pay the way > for this free information. Sure, I'm game for targeted ads if they are relevant, but not for generic unrelated google text ads. There is still some void in finding targeted ads for projects like ours, which essentially is matching compatible companies who can benefit from our community and vice-versa. I know some people working on this, but its not there yet... > > Have we extended a special invitation for those involved in Google > Summer of Code to come see what LGM is all about, so we can generate > some esteem on their part for our various projects? It doesn't matter if > this year's GSoC is already decided by the time LGM2011 happens. I asked Google, and Google is giving us 5K so far, but yes, I will followup in the thread about GSoC participating. I've become friends with the new GSoC manager, Carol. > Have we rolled out the red carpet (so to speak) for HP, with its heavy > investment and involvement in graphics printing, to be an honored guest > at LGM? (With the tacit backup of contacting Canon or Epson or Brother > or Lexmark -- ok, we'll be happy with money, but we want you to come too) I emailed Keith Packard at Intel and BDale at HP, hoping their companies will sponsor, but yes, hope that we can get more support and participation from people from those companies. We've never had a good time getting the other printing companies on-board. They redirect to lame sales people. > Have we talked to any of these people about linking to LGM from their > sites? (we're really not threatening to them in any way -- we're pretty > benign compared to their real competitors) That's an interesting idea. Google is the most healthy in this aspect, but unless there is a deeper committment, most companies have a hard time promoting others. > > Let's make LGM2011 viral. Other ideas? Keep them flowing! The most potent viral campaigns are original content, and not gimmicks. Things like LGMag, etc are great, but videos of me and eric hahahahhahaa ;) just kidding... Jon -- Jon Phillips <a href="http://fabricatorz.com" target="_blank">http://fabricatorz.com</a> <a href="tel:%2B1.415.830.3884">+1.415.830.3884</a> (global) </blockquote></div>