Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (46 mails)

[Michael Loeffler <michl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 23 February 2007 20:36, Jozef Peterka wrote:
> IMHO, this is great idea !
> Because I think, that expanse of the OpenSource software in general is just
> a sweet dream without serious and continuous support and cooperation
> from/with commercial "companies". What I am trying to say is : No Money No
> Jazz ... Personally I would like to see the logos of great commercial Linux
> supporters :)
That's where we try to get.
>
> But there is one thing, which could earn some coins to openSuSE :
> Small presents thingies like T-Shirt, Mug, Cap or just stickers for
> PCs/laptops etc.
> People can say, thousand reasons why not to sell some stuff like this, for
> example cause u need a producer, distributor etc. for these thingies, but I
> am just wondering, why Novell won't take care of it?
That's on our to-do list. We have now addtional backing form Novell's Product 
Marketing team and need to talk to some vendor who could do this for us. 

Regards
Michael 
> Second reason one could say is that nobody will buy these things. I say
> that people who even love Microsoft would never wear the cap with white M$
> logo, but I think that most of the openSuSE users would love to wear
> GreenLizzard wherever and by this way let the others know "Hey, you know
> this is a logo of my favourite Linux distro !"
>
> I hope I wasn't emotional too much ;)
> Best whishes with gathering some money for MY FAVOURITE :)
>
> KaiSVK
>
> On Friday 23 February 2007 13:46, Michael Loeffler wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I asked in our last IRC meeting for your opinion on getting sponsors for
> > openSUSE. To reach all of you I ask additionally on the mailinglist.
> > We're currently looking for sponsors for the Build Service - hardware,
> > bandwith and money. That's to increase performance and get broader
> > backing for the whole project.
> > The sponsors obviously want something back - presence. We'd like to offer
> > them logo visibility at opensuse.org, build.opensuse.org and some high
> > frequent pages like the downlaod pages. We'd reserve one place for a logo
> > which is used randomley by all sponsors and won't be flashy, blinking
> > images or similar. And we're talking only to companies in the IT
> > environment.
> >
> > Let me know what you're thinking about it.
> >
> > Regards
> > Michael
>
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