[CREATE] LGM 2009 update

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

For 2006, we had:

HP: $10,000
FSF: $3,000
Xara: $3,000
O'Reilly: $2,000
GNOME: Didn't take a 5% charge we'd agreed on donations - equalled a
$1000 sponsorship
Flock: $1,000 (thanks to Manish Singh, who was working there at the time)
Eyrolles: €1,000
MacGIMP: $500

Don't know why MacGimp didn't get a logo on the site...

Cheers,
Dave.

Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2009/1/29 Dave Neary <dneary at free.fr>
> 
>> 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
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just for the record, from this list, here are the ones who were sponsors and
> actually donated money or substantial help in value.
> 
> - Google (2008 $)
> - HP (2006, 2007 $)
> - Intel (2007 $)
> - Xerox (2007 - lend equipment)
> - Xara (2006 ???)
> - O'Reilly (2006 - $ + books)
> - Eyrolles (2006, 2007 $ + books)
> - FSF (2006, 2007, 2008 $)
> - Grafika (2007 - large free publicity)
> 
> * * *
> Sponsors not in the above list :
> - GIMP team (2007 $)
> - Our community (2008 $)
> - Quebec government (2007 $)
> - GRICS (2007 $)
> - Révolution Linux (2007 - services)
> 
> * * *
> - GNOME helped with admin in  2008 <http://gnulinuxmag.com/> for a low cost
> and I hope they can be onboard again in 2009.
> 
> 
> 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).
> 
> 
> Absolutely agree.
> 
> 
>> Individuals might also be interested - especially those who donated last
>> time.
> 
> 
> This brings up again the idea of putting together a Pledgie Campaign. We
> have had a tremendous success last year with our community and it was
> actually THE gold sponsor of the event!
> 
>> 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).
> 
> 
> Again, completely agree! Good ideas!
> 
> What we need now is put together a short but convincing letter about what
> LGM is about. We can reuse some stuff from previous years but at the same
> time a new look and fresh things would be great too.
> 
>> if you pitch it as a workshop for developers of the low-level library end
> of things (littleCMS, Cairo, Clutter).
> 
> kind of thing.
> 
> Remember that LGM is THE annual meeting of the graphic OSS apps developers
> and it is the Fourth Edition. For all the teams it's a unique moment for
> international gathering and crucial meetings among and between teams. LGM is
> hard work. In that view, sponsors are clearly helping the development of
> those apps. If they trust these apps are good for them in any respect, then
> they should consider throwing some money in. Every dollar/euro counts.
> 
> I would also add that this year — in January 2009, now this is fresh news —
> The Seybold Report, one of the most well-known analyst of the publisher's
> world made a review of Scribus and I suspect they will be looking more and
> more at the OSS world in the coming months and years. That could also help
> convince some large manufacturers to step in. These guys all read TSR.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Louis
> 
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave.
>>
>> --
>> Dave Neary
>> dneary at free.fr
>> Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45
>> Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13
>>
> 

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