Sure, who works there? I don't know anyon there, but I bet someone from canonical can hook it up? which canonical employees are on this list? or I can just email robbie....or susan can ask her significant other ;)
Jon On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Susan Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dell ships computers preloaded with Linux. > Perhaps they are interested in cultivating > customers within the open source community. > > - Susan > >> >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:31:06 -0500 >> From: Jon Phillips <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [CREATE] Access to LGM website >> To: Gregory Pittman <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> 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, [email protected] 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 >> http://fabricatorz.com >> +1.415.830.3884 (global) >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ | http://fabricatorz.com/ chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
