So does this mean I'm out of luck asking for sponsorship for New Mexico LinuxFest? <div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/21 Karsten Wade <<a href="mailto:kwade@redhat.com">kwade@redhat.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:25:32PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > > So - if you are going to talk at a LUG meeting - consider showing up with pizza > If there's a BarCamp - consider having Fedora sponsor it - and make > sure you pitch a lot of Fedora/FLOSS/Linux talks. > If there is a conference we are going to have a presence at we should > be sponsoring it. I tend to agree, and in fact was stuck recently when asked if Fedora would sponsor LinuxFest Northwest. The reason I didn't say yes was budget. AFAICT, we don't have the money to fund getting people there, running a booth, and providing any sponsoring more than ... US$100? OTOH, I would argue that your approach is a good reason for Max to argue for more event budget overall. While it is not in Red Hat's interest to sponsor a show they cannot get good sales leads from, Fedora's purpose is different. We *do* get new participants and contributors at every show we attend (which are equivalent to 'qualified sales leads' for Fedora!), and would obviously get more value if we get the brand out there as a sponsor and organizer. At this point, FAmNA needs to decide to funnel money in to sponsorship, which will probably reduce the overall number of events we can do this year. - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener <a href="http://quaid.fedorapeople.org" target="_blank">http://quaid.fedorapeople.org</a> AD0E0C41 -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </blockquote></div>