From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [216.168.135.167]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A7AF6BC98 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17671 invoked by uid 1003); 29 Aug 2013 13:45:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.103?) (philip@opensdr.com@71.171.32.225) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Aug 2013 13:45:12 -0000 Message-ID: <521F5066.8050005@balister.org> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:45:10 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org" , "openembedded-members@lists.openembedded.org" X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Subject: Yocto Dev Day Sponsorship Opportunity X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:45:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is kind of short notice, but I'd like some feedback on this idea ... So for the Yocto Dev Day before ELCE in Edinburgh, the Yocto Project is looking for additional Sponsorship to cover the cost of coffee breaks (and some other stuff, but these are the least expensive) I'm wondering if OpenEmbedded would like to sponsor a coffee break. Obviously, we'd need to do a quick round of fund raising to make this happen. I think it would be a good way for us to increase visibility of the OpenEmbedded brand and gives many of the smaller players a chance to contribute to some of the larger Yocto Project costs. So I'd like to hear two things from everyone: 1) Should we sponsor events when it makes sense? 2) If you are interested in helping sponsor this particular even, send me a private email with amounts. If there is sufficient interest we have access to US and EU bank accounts for money collection. Long term, I'd like to get a more organized fund raising plan in place and identify how we can support the needs of the project better. Some ideas that have been tossed around over the years, travel grants for people promoting OE, event sponsorship, pay for infrastructure improvements, contribute to auto builder costs etc. Many of these are being covered by volunteers working in the community It would be nice to help them out. I'll be semi-afk through Tuesday, but should be able to see email. Philip