[CREATE] Pitching a community-funded conference

[Louis Desjardins]

Please note that Kamila *Giedrojc* is the official organiser of LGM 
2008. I have cc'ed her with this message so there is no error on the 
person! Dave has another Kamila in his contact book.

Cheers!

Louis

Dave Neary a écrit :
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Some good ideas, I'm including Kamila (local organiser) and Louis
> (organiser last year) to keep them in the loop.
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel James wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>>>> Please mail me offlist if you would like some ideas/contacts to try.
>>> I'm all ears! I would love to get some new sponsors on-board.
>> OK, how about:
>>
>> Any company that sells Linux/UNIX graphics workstations, e.g. HP, IBM,
>> Sun, to the film/CGI industries. You have to get the right department
>> though. Also the AMD and Intel reps that deal with these departments -
>> at AMD in the US, try Charlie Boswell.
> 
> HP are a previous sponsor, and have just confirmed they won't be
> sponsoring this year. Perhaps we could have success if we went to
> another department (cameras, printers, scanners, or indeed
> workstations), but in general everything free software related goes
> through the Open Source department, which is where we have our contact.
> 
> IBM: No go this year (again, through their open source programs), Sun
> have a limited community budget this year, and they're spending most of
> it on OpenSolaris, GNOME (JDS) and Java.
> 
> If you have any contacts in the film industry, I'l happinly contact them.
> 
> Intel are a sponsor this year.
> 
> AMD: do you have an email address or phone number?
> 
>> Epson Polska - http://www.epson.pl/ - the parent company has always
>> provided good driver support.
>>
>> Nikon Polska - http://www.nikon.pl/home/pl_PL/homepage/broad/site.html -
>> Nikon DSLR cameras work out of the box on 64 Studio, we also have great
>> RAW tools and CinePaint for HDR files.
> 
> Idem - if you have any idea who the best person to contact would be,
> that would be helpful.
> 
>> O'Reilly/Rocky Nook (Gimp 2 for Photographers) - I will contact Josette
>> Garcia on behalf of LGM, if that's OK.
> 
> I'll leave that up to Louis - O'Reilly were a (cash) sponsor for LGM 1,
> as well as a media sponsor with some books & publicity. I imagine we've
> already contacted them.
> 
>> With these companies, there's a quid pro quo - you have to offer them
>> some exhibition space to show off their products in return for sponsorship.
>>
>>>> You also need involvement from the local and national Polish/central
>>>> European IT media, as soon as possible (due to monthly magazine print
>>>> schedules) e.g. http://www.linux-magazine.pl/ which is owned by the
>>>> German company Linux New Media AG.
>>> This is more of an investment of time that I personally can make this
>>> year, but there are good ideas in what you say.
>> I'll contact Brian Osborn, who used to be the business development
>> manager at Linux New Media. It's vital to get the press support if you
>> want local people to take an interest and show up.
> 
> Sure, I understand that. However, there's a big investment in time to
> write articles, lobby people to commission articles, collect a list of
> managzines, editor names, contact them all, etc. I've done it in the
> past, but I don't have time to commit to it this year. Someone else
> could of course do this.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 


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