On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:47:18AM +0200, Zach Oglesby wrote:
All,
I am trying to compile a list of companies to contact about sponsoring the next Student Coding session, but I am not having much luck on this. I would like some input on companies that you think it might be beneficial for them to get behind this. Thank for the help.
I was going to try to cross-reference with anyone who had been contacted already by others at Red Hat about this program, but I don't think it matters as much. Those companies were relatively big, perhaps the multiple vectors in will help. Anyone found through these pages are eligible, IMO:
http://www.redhat.com/partners/
That means, any one of them might be willing to complete the circle and place a bet on the future. The numbers are to our advantage -- student coding participants tend to stick around and do more stuff, compared to people who walk in off the street. (I wonder if that means $ spent here might have 3x the value of $ spend sponsoring a conference event.)
That means we can think about lots of companies. Here are some ideas by sort-of categories. Let them spark more ideas. These companies have people working in Fedora, but we haven't heard if they've asked around at their companies. I wonder if we could use some FAS search capabilities to make some guesses about who works where? (Answer: yes; public records we can use to send targeted requests?)
= ISVs ==
These independent software vendors work directly or indirectly in open source. They may have employees with worthy ideas who want a chance to mentor (by throwing their ideas in to the open pool.) They may have staff who want to work on a project in the open source way and help us with administering the program.
* IBM *
= IHVs =
These hardware vendors are much like the ISVs above.
* Intel * AMD * HTC * Motorola * Dell * HP * Lexmark * Xerox * EMC * Nvidia * ATI * Cisco * Fujitsu * Hitachi * NEC
= Services ==
Solutions integrators (SIs) and professional service companies might be good ones to look at.
* Accenture * EDS * A really huge list :)
- Karsten