[TriLUG] Software Freedom day

[Kevin J.]

I hadda ask... ;) Nice plugs though. I'd sponsor you if I had an open-source business. 

Having a test Ubuntu system from Dell is a really good idea. If you could give me the contact info., I'd like to see if they'll ship us one as well which we could either offer for purchase or mail back at completion.

Kevin

----- Original Message ----
From: Cristóbal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 1:26:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Software Freedom day

On 9/10/07, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Very nice. Please let me know how you were so successful at getting such great sponsorship.

I asked many nice people and I asked them early. I also tried to ask
nicely. It didn't hurt that I was asking them for help to set up a
very high-profile event. :)

Those nice local sponsors for the UNC sfd2007 are, again:

* Dell (http://www.dell.com/)

Our platinum sponsor. They're funding much of the event and providing
us with door prizes and demo machines, including one of the new Ubuntu
preinstall machines.

* Redhat (http://www.redhat.com/)

Is providing Fedora gear and is sending Max Spevack to speak to us about Fedora.

* Mindtouch (http://www.mindtouch.com/)

A UNC alumnus, the head of Mindtouch--Aaron Fulkerson--is happy to
sponsor not just our local sfd2007 festivities, but is also a global
SFD sponsor. Thanks so much Aaron!

* OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page)

A trilugger and Open Source entrepreneur, Tarus Balog is the head of
OpenNMS and another eager sponsor. Check out their enterprise-grade
monitoring software if you haven't already. Thanks Tarus!

* Siena Tech (Ron Joffe)

Another TriLUG connection, Siena Tech is a Chapel Hill-based
SLES/Oracle consulting firm, among other things. Thanks Ron!

* Cerient Technologies (http://cerient.net/)

A former TriLUG steering chair, Jason Tower heads up Cerient
Technologies, an RTP-based Linux VAR and consulting firm. Need
training? Need a Linux server? Call Jason.

Last but not least, many thanks to Andrew Perrin for providing us with
several hundred CD-Rs for handing out copies of TheOpenCD.

Cheers,
-- 
Cristóbal M. Palmer
celebrating 15 years of sunsite/metalab/ibiblio:
http://tinyurl.com/2o8hj4
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