<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">My primary goal was sponsorship. <div class="gmail_extra" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If not financially, then maybe via hardware for a future SCALE?</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Cisco at some point sold Linksys to Belkin (or something like that). As you mentioned their gear tends to be linux based. And at some point they were trying to market to Linux users via the WRT-54GL line.  Similar story with Dlink but as you mentioned sponsorship was always tight there.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also I've generally been surprised we never see attendees and speakers from these companies given how much Linux and OSS they use.  </div><div class="gmail_extra">Even just getting their lawyers to attend the OSS legal training would be great.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Dennis Rex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennis@socallinuxexpo.org" target="_blank">dennis@socallinuxexpo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I have some with two degrees of separation or so, Ilan. Are we looking for them to sponsor a particular event? Most all that stuff is heavily based on Linux so there's a straight line connection. D-Link is also in So Cal and I have a few friends there. They are notoriously tight on event budgets, though </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail-h5">On Feb 17, 2018 12:03 PM, "Ilan Rabinovitch" <<a href="mailto:ilan@linuxfests.org" target="_blank">ilan@linuxfests.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail-m_-1149045197372955391m_-8366961237118159359gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi Folks,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Do we know anyone at Linksys / Belkin? They're based in Santa Monica and Irvine.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Would be interested in seeingif we can get them involved in SCALE some how.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Thanks,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Ilan</div><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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