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 -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/summer-coding/attachments/20101013/c058f7d8/attachment.bin
