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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