WikiThis page gives an overview over possible sponsors and the current state of affairs.
- See the CallForSponsors for material to approach possible sponsors
- See the SponsorProgram for the general sponsoring program of the conference - though probably more useful for corporate sponsors
- See MDDA for an example for an argumentation for a local, business orienteted possible sponsor
State
| Name of possible sponsor | Responsible | Web site | Date of contact | Replied? | State |
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| Northwest Regional Development Agency | Yuwei | http://www.nwda.co.uk/ | 2008-06-22 | 2008-06-23 |  |
| Manchester Digital Development Agency | Yuwei | http://www.manchesterdda.com/ | 2008-06-23 | 2008-06-23 |  |
| Yuwei | http://www.google.com | 2008-06-22 | 2008-06-23 | |
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| BT | Yuwei | http://www.bt.com | 2008-06-22 | |
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| Nokia | Yuwei | http://www.nokia.com | 2008-06-25 | |
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| Virgin | Yuwei | http://www.virgin.com | 2008-06-25 | |
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| Rosa Luxemburg Foundation | StefanMn | http://www.rosalux.de/cms/index.php?id=engl | 2008-06-19 | 2008-08-18 |  |
| Heinrich Böll Stiftung | StefanMn | http://www.boell.de/service/home.html | 2008-06-19 | 2008-06-24 | (respective department does not exist any more) |
| Soros Foundation | StefanMn (Yuwei can contact TacticalTech http://www.tacticaltech.org/ instead) | http://www.soros.org/ | 2008-07-28 | 2008-10-08 | |
| Jamendo | StefanMn | http://www.jamendo.com/ | 2008-06-29 | 2008-06-30 | |
| Sun | StefanMn | http://www.sun.com/ | 2008-08-12 | 2008-11-02 | |
| fon | Michel | ||||
| hindawi | Michel | ||||
| lulu | Michel | ||||
| magnatune | Michel | ||||
| neuros | Michel | ||||
| ponoko | Michel | ||||
| Canonical | StefanMn | http://www.canonical.com/ | 2008-08-21 | 2008-09-27 | |
| British Academy | Yuwei | http://www.britac.ac.uk/ | 2008-10-14 | 2009-01-06 | |
| COMMUNIA | Stefan | 2008-11-14 | |
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| EASST | Yuwei & StefanMn | http://www.easst.net/ | 2008-12-18 | 2009-02-17 | |
| The Open Knowledge Foundation (may be only for connections) | Stefan | http://okfn.org/ | 2008-11-13 | 2008-11-14 | not a funding body but interested |
| The Young Foundation | Stefan | http://www.youngfoundation.org.uk/ | 2008-11-13 | 2009-01-09 | not a funding body |
| The Shuttleworth Foundation | Stefan | http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/ | 2008-11-13 | 2008-11-26 | |
| FSF | Stefan | http://www.fsf.org/ | 2008-11-17 | |
| Icon | Meaning |
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Ready to sponsor |
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No sponsoring possible |
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Request failed for some reason |
Possible Sponsors
General ideas
- Companies from http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Companies
Local sponsors
In previous conferences we always had local sponsors from the town or country where the conference took place.
IDEA Communities: allows UK local government officials to share knowledge in Communities of Practice
A network site connecting digital communities.
From previous conference
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Germany)
Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Germany)
Respective department does not exist any more
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Try again
- Soros Foundation (international)
Fallback
- Oekonux e.V.
- Existing money
- Ask for additional donations from Oekonux participants
- Fee from conference participants
- Don't remunerate contributors who don't need remuneration
- Checkbox in Pentabarf?
Corporate sponsors
Ideas
- Open Hardware sector
- Literally profit from peer production
- Fit nicely into conference program
- Other companies profiting from peer production
- Ethical banks in the UK
Benefits
- Make your company visible as being generally interested in peer
production
- Sponsoring the Oekonux Conference makes your claim very trustworthy
- Professional community conference
- At the junction between community and science
- Lots of attention
- Become part of a tradition of Oekonux Conferences
- Web site
- Long term presence
- 150+ conference attenders
Needs
- Visibility / press coverage
Offerings
- Logo on the conference home page
- Listing in the conference announcement
- Conference announcement has a huge distribution through online channels
- General coverage in conference PR
- For instance: A short statement about the company
- May give a guaranteed talk
- Or participate in a panel
- Starting at some non-trivial amount of funding
- Banner for sponsors home page to link back to conference
- Inclusion of sponsor brochure / advertisement in conference package
- Free registrations
- Classification of sponsoring amount
- Platin sponsor: >= 5000EUR
- Gold sponsor: >= 2500 < 5000EUR
- Silver sponsor: >= 1000 < 2500EUR
- Bronze sponsor: < 1000EUR
