[Theforum] Corporate sponsorship?

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Certainly that was a major reason. Other people may differ on

1) Whether it was the main reason (another major reason was to retain the
rights over content we produce)

2) What 'free from' means. We already have corporate sponsored software
(Chilisoft for one) and corporate sponsored community members (John Dowdell
for one), and unless we're pay commercial rates, we have corporate
sponsored bandwidth. If 'free from' means 'not accepting any support from'
we're already there, sorry, and have been for a very, very long time. If it
means 'not allowing corporate sponsorship to dictate what we say' then
we're OK and that won't change.

Cheers
Martin




> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "Jon Haworth" <jhaworth at witanjardine.co.uk>
> To: <theforum at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:47 AM
> Subject: [Theforum] Corporate sponsorship?
>
>
>>Hi list,
>>
>>Please forgive a lurker jumping in with a suggestion that's probably
>>already been made, but it's been buzzing round my head for a couple
>>of days now.
>>
>>Would it be possible, or even worth-trying-but-don't-hold-your-
>>breath, to get some level of corporate sponsorship for meo, in the
>>form of software licenses, hardware, hosting, cash, bandwidth
>>provision, etc etc?
>>
>
> oh absolutely - it's something that's cropped up in discussions already -
> the fun part is figuring out _who_ to target and persuading them it's a
> worthy cause.


keep in mind that the MAIN reason why evolt.org was formed was to enable
  developers to have a place free of corporate sponsors.


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