> Thomas Koch wrote: > > There's a german association, "Linux user in der Kirche"[1] (Linux user > > in the church), which plans to organize a booth on the next big meeting > > of the german church in 2010. > > They aim is to promote the usage of linux in the administrations of > > church communities and of course private use of linux. > > The cost of the booth is around 800 Euro, which must be collected from > > private sponsorship until december to make the booth happen. > > > > Maybe debian could sponsor this event? > > Thanks a lot for your engagement for Debian and GNU/Linux in clerical > environments. > > For other events and shows we have always asked the organisers of the > event to sponsor the booth for Free Software. This even worked for > highly commercial events such as CeBIT and Systems. Partially these > booths weren't sponsored by the organisers but by companies already > maintaining a booth on that particular show. > > I'm not sure the Debian project should start paying for booths now. > > I would rather like Debian to help running the booth by providing > hardware if needed or booth material such as posters and large signs. > > Regards, > > Joey > There's a radical difference between technical exhibitions like CeBIT and the Kirchentag: At the Kirchentag most of the exhibitants are non-profit. Compared to little initiatives supporting schools in poor countries, a linux booth is even more on the profit site: If people switch to linux there is business to be made in consulting. (Still luki is such a small association that there members would not be likely to profite from such business.)
Regards, Thomas Koch Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
