I contacted the Python Software Foundation informally as I hope they might be interested in sponsoring. If I get a positive answer, it would be nice if a more formal request could be made. I'll be at Pycon in Atlanta next week, so I will be able to talk directly to them about it as well.
Best regards, Stani On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Femke Snelting <[email protected]> wrote: > Before getting drawn into the LGM programme, I would like to ask on a > practical note for your experience in financing the event ... > > How can we start getting sponsors to fly/train people to Brussels? It's > not the kind of thing we are used to so we need your help :-) > Who is interested in acquisition, looking for finances, sponsors? > > We entered an application for subsidy a few weeks ago at the Flemish > Community (governmental subsidy for design events), asking for support > in the travel costs. Although the committee seems intrigued we're not > sure 'open source' and 'developers meeting' fit their average culture > criteria. So I'm just mentioning this, but there's a small chance it > will make it and we will only know the score in a few months. > > Pledgie anyone? > > > Femke > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > -- Phatch Photo Batch Processor - http://photobatch.stani.be SPE Python IDE - http://pythonide.stani.be _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
