[CREATE] LGM 2009 update

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

Nathan Willis wrote:
> I culled together a brief list of past sponsors based solely on the wiki
> pages available from 2007 and 2006.  Were there any others?  I know the 07
> list was unofficial and there wasn't one up for 08.

I assume you mean prospects, rather than sponsors? I think most of these
have never sponsored...


>    - ATI
>    - Canon
>    - Epson
>    - Google
>    - HP
>    - IBM
>    - Intel
>    - Xerox
>    - Xara
>    - O'Reilly
>    - Eyrolles
>    - FSF
>    - Grafika
>    - Société des arts technologiques (SAT)
>    - CPE.fr
>    - Aldil.org
>    - Flock
>    - GNOME
>    - gnulinuxmag.com

You might add on your prospect list film studios like Hammerhead, Rhythm
& Hues, Dreamworks, Disney, ILM, and that New Zealand one whose name I
can't remember (but they don't spend money on this type of thing,
usually). Oh, and those Spanish guys who did the bird movie in Blender?
Although they're probably looking for money, rather than spending it.

General ideas: Companies interested in free software graphics might be
hardware companies (cameras, scanners, tablets, printers), Linux
distributions (Canonical have an Ubuntu distribution that focuses on
multimedia creation), movie studios (who work with the distributions -
in particular Red Hat - a lot already) and art studios. You might also
manage to get help from magazines who use free software in their
toolchain (many of the Linux mags do, I think). Individuals might also
be interested - especially those who donated last time.

You might also manage to wangle a grant from an appropriate non-profit -
the FSF is a previous sponsor, as you noted, and you might try the Linux
Foundation - they may be able to pay for travel for some people through
their travel fund - and if you tailor your argument right, some of the
mobile companies might be interested, if you pitch it as a workshop for
developers of the low-level library end of things (littleCMS, Cairo,
Clutter).

Cheers,
Dave.

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