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Picn*x14 Sponsors

As of 2005-09-13 22:00

Name Amount Contact Confirmed Money or swag received On Web site? Tagline
Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall PTR & IBM Press Books@ Heather Fox Yes Yes (Jennifer Davis) Yes  
Barracuda Networks $200 Jayson Hotell Yes Yes Yes  
BayLISA $100 + Glasses@ Jennifer Davis Yes Yes Yes  
BitPusher $250 + Food@ Michael T. Halligan Yes Yes Yes Managed IT services for Small & Medium sized Bay Area businesses.
Canonical Ubuntu Discs@ Rick Moen Yes Yes, but got temp'ly lost at Rick's Yes  
Ranch http://www.cocoranch.com/] and [Vattar Group Food Henry House Yes Yes Yes  
Google $2000 (for T-shirts) Chris DiBona Yes Yes Yes  
Linux-Consulting.com $250 + Raffle?@ Alvin Oga Yes Yes Yes Building custom Linux hardware, system security and maintenance/monitoring
Mini-Box (ITuner) $100 + VoomPC@ Andrei Bulucea Yes Yes Yes Ituner.com aka mini-box.com designs and manufactures custom DC-DC power supplies and external WIFI antenna enclosures with WRAP
No Starch Press Books & Tshirts@ William Pollock Yes Yes Yes  
OffMyServer $200 Matt Olander Yes Yes Yes  
OpenCountry $200 Paul Cubbage Yes Yes Yes  
Oracle Technology Network (OTN) $800 Todd Trichler Yes Yes Yes  
O'Reilly & Assoc Giveaways@ Marsee Henon, Bill Ward Yes Yes Yes  
Penguin Computing Giveaways@ Mark Cohen Yes Yes Yes  
Polywell Computers $200 + Food@ Dan Sanchez Yes Yes Yes "Linux Hardware System Specialist", "Polywell - More Power, More Choices"
Sonic.net $250 Matt Kirk Yes Yes Yes "Sonic.net, a Linux friendly, Linux savvy, Linux-based ISP"
USENIX $100 + printing Anne Dickison Yes Yes Yes  
Total /$4650/   /$4650/ /$4650/    

As of 2005-09-13, all sponsorships pledged for 2005 have been received.

(Please keep the total updated here and on [ExpenseBudget])


Instructions for sponsors

Send checks to:

 Linux Users' Group of Davis
 Attn: Picnix Sponsorship
 PO Box 837
 Davis, CA 95616

Made out to Linux Users' Group of Davis, with "Picnix" in the memo field. (Contact Henry House at devnull@lugod.org if you have questions.)

You can get a receipt for your donation by asking for one (it will be returned by mail). If you do not ask for a receipt you will not get one.


@ Non-Monetary Donations

  • Addison-Wesley -- Books (14; 2 copies each of 7 titles), plus 400 book coupons.
  • BayLISA -- 3 boxes (72 count) of pint glasses
  • BitPusher -- Grill, 2 to 4 grillmaster volunteers, food #.
  • Canonical -- 100 Ubuntu disc packs (60 i386, 30 x86_64, 10 PowerPC)
  • CocoRanch and Vattar Group -- Food #.
  • Mini-Box -- VoomPC ([http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.87/it.A/id.373/.f])
  • Linux-Consulting.com -- Will raffle a 1U server.
    • Linux-1U.net C1400 chassis -- P4 2.4G 533fsb -- 40GB disk -- 512MB pc2100 -- worth ~$700
    • Alvin says: "for those that are flying in from out of town, they can either carry with them (best thing), or we can ship via fedex, but they'd have to pay for feded (could be up to $150, depending on the country they are from)"
  • No Starch Press -- books (~10), tshirts (50), discount coupons.
  • O'Reilly -- books, catalogs and discount coupons.
  • Penguin Computing -- T-Shirts, Stuffed Penguins, Posters and Pens.
  • Polywell -- 5-10 volunteers for cooking duties, food #.

# Note: The [Food] page has specific details as to what sponsors have promised. It will also eventually list what other food and supplies the picnic organizers plan to buy just before the event.


Recent changes: Bill Kendrick, 2005-08-14 22:25 -- Updated for what arrived at picnic. Corrected total received.
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