Re: Reaching out to sponsors
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Mihai Bivol <mm.bivol@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-03-01 18:30 GMT+02:00 Sorina Sandu <sorina@rosedu.org>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Margarita Manterola
>> <margamanterola@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey everybody!
>>>
>>> We need to reach out to sponsors in order to secure enough sponsorship money
>>> to be able to pay for our speakers, t-shirts, video gear, and if possible
>>> coffee breaks and/or lunch (although this will only happen if the other
>>> expenses get covered).
>>
>> Yes, definitely! I have a question about sponsorships, for local
>> companies are we going to need/use a local entity/account (a ROSEdu
>> account?). If so, I think we should mention this in the message we'll
>> be sending to sponsors.
>>
>>
>>> Google has already agreed to be a Gold sponsor, and HP is considering it.
>>
>> That's great!
>>
>>
>>> I was speaking with a colleague from Bucharest yesterday, and she gave me a
>>> list of possible companies in Bucharest that we might want to contact.
>>> Please, if you have contacts at any of these, say so and send the attached
>>> PDF to them.
>>>
>>> * Intel
>>> * Ixia
>>> * Endava
>>> * Ceragon networks
>>> * Cisco
>>> * 4psa
>>>
>>> I'm sure that you can think of many other companies that might be interested
>>> in sponsoring, feel free to add them to this list.
>>
>> Few more I can think of:
>>
>> * Adobe
>> * Eau de web
>> * Freescale
>> * Luxoft
>>
>>
>>> Even if your contacts are not "high up", it's worth asking them to give you
>>> a contact to the appropriate person, or to forward your mail to them.
>>> However, before doing this, please do coordinate on the list over here, so
>>> that we don't contact companies more than once.
>>
>> Yes, from what I know ROSEdu did have collaborations with at least
>> some of the companies mentioned, I'm going to ask for contacts and
>> keep you updated.
>
> I have contacted Eau de Web and waiting for a response.
Diana Mincu had a discussion with Bitdefender, also waiting for a response.
Best,
Sorina
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