Sponsorship
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Introduction
Below is a list of the sponsors mentioned in the pages of previous conferences.
Interaction with sponsors needs a central person. It is thought that there will be a LA sponsorship officer at some point soon. At least, there should be (in StewartSmith's opinion :)
We should also take special care to include smaller sponsors (including local businesses). Be aware that often the smaller sponsors are much harder to manage than the larger, corporate ones. Smaller sponsors can sometimes be more trouble than they are worth in $ terms. They simply expect a lot more as their sponsorship $ are a larger % of their "marketing" budget. You need to have fairly strict terms of what a sponsor gets for what level of sponsorship, how "in kind" services are handled etc etc. Just some things to think about.
Possible Sponsors
In addition to many of those who've been previous sponsors there will be local companies:
- Free plugs:
- Those the organisers work for
- Those who loan gear/space for the conf (networking gear, storage)
- Local Vendors:
- Cybersource?
- Other:
- HP and IBM?
- Telstra? (perhaps get hotspot sponsorship?)Internode? AAPT
- Everything linux.
- OSIA and OSV members
- Red Hat?
- oracle, novell, & sun?
- canonical?
Previous Sponsors
2006 Dunedin
HP, IBM and Intel - with some booze for shmoozing from google and mysql.
2005 Canberra
- Tux - IBM
- Emperor - HP
- Special Partner - Sun
- Supporters
- Linux Australia
- Comm Secure
- Alexander Technology
- The Co-op Bookshop
- Canonical
2004 Adelaide
- Penguin - IBM
- Platinum - Oracle
- Gold
- Sun
- HP
- Adelaide uni
- Silver
- Netcraft
- AArnet
- Adreniline
- inetd
- commsecure
- Apple
- INternode
- ACS
- ELX (Everything Linux)
2003 Perth
The Penguin Sponsor: IBM
Major Sponsors
- Functional Software
- Computer Associates
Special Sponsors
- The University of Western Australia: Venue Sponsor
- OSDN OSDN: On-line Media Sponsor
- Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems: Regional Delegate Programme Sponsor
- CommSecureCommSecure (On-line Credit Card Processing)
Supporters - Donated services or products
- Boffins Bookshop
- Canning College
- Celebrity Enterprises (Limousine Service)
- City Printing and Design
- Cold Fusion User Group WA.
- Colourbox Digital Printing (Conference Posters)
- Pelican Manufacturing
- Perth Convention Bureau (Some Printed Material)
- Thawte - SSL Certificate
- The University Computer Club, UWA
2002 Brisbane
Penguin Sponsor:
- IBM
Major Sponsor:
- QLD Uni - The University of Queensland's School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering is generously providing conference halls, tutorial rooms and Internet connectivity for conference guests.
Current Sponsors
- Borland - Borland, makers of Kylix, Interbase, and JBuilder.
- DSTC - Distributed Systems Technology Centre at The University of Queensland.
- Anchor Systems - Linux based web-hosting and co-location services for Australian Web Developers and Internet Consultants.
- Cybersource - Cybersource, Linux/Unix Consulting, Training and Development
Current Supporters
- CommSecure - helping with electronic transactions.
- EverythingLinux - Linux related stuff store.
- Plugged In Software - providing a number of resources, including meeting rooms, webspace, professional design staff and more.
- HiTec - providing the Wireless Access Points so conference guests can have Internet connectivity.
- PlanetMirror - provided conference promotional material, along with FTP space for the conference proceedings.
2001 Sydney
- Penguin Sposor - Aurema
- Major Sponsors
- LinuxCare
- UNSW
- Sponsors
- TurboLinux
- VA Linux
