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.
Zach
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
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