Re: Debian money, booth on german church meeting
> 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
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