Wellington Sponsor Spotlight – Catalyst IT

Catalyst IT is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s SFD Wellington event.

Catalyst is a fully New Zealand owned company, directed and staffed by bright and intelligent Information Technology experts who deliver critical open source business systems to some of NZ’s largest organisations.

SFD Wellington is still looking for sponsors! Join Catalyst IT in supporting a great community event. More details here.

Wellington Sponsor Spotlight – Amberdms

Amberdms is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s SFD Wellington event.

Amberdms is a Wellington-based company providing IT support and software development services, with particular focus on developing and supporting open source solutions.

Aside from building next gen technologies for customers, Amberdms also have a number of open source web application products, including the Amberdms Billing System, an open source web-based application providing accounting, invoicing, service billing and time keeping.

SFD Wellington is still looking for sponsors! Join Amberdms in supporting a great community event. More details here.

Speakers and Presenters Needed – Wellington

In addition to the unconference, Software Freedom Day Wellington will feature some scheduled speakers, presenters, and workshops – and you could be one of them!

Attendees of SFD Wellington range from children, to students, to adults – with a large variety in Open Source experience (from the curious potential user to the guru FOSS developer) – so the possible topics are endless!

One hour and half hour long timeslots are available, and, in the spirit of Software Freedom Day,  presenters are encouraged to allocate half of that time to discussion. “Break-out” areas will be available at the end of the allocated time slot so that, if desired, discussions can continue without running into the next presentation.

If you’d like to speak or run a workshop at Software Freedom Day Wellington, email Bex (bex@amberdms.com) or Ruth (ruth@getsussed.co.nz).

Call for Sponsorship – Wellington

Software Freedom Day is a free community event and, as such, depends on sponsors in order to make it successful.

SFD Wellington is still looking for monetary and in-kind sponsors. If you would like to help us promote free and open source software to the Wellington community, please contact Ruth (ruth@getsussed.co.nz) or Bex (bex@amberdms.com).

Sponsorship packages are available as follows, but we’re quite flexible — email us with your ideas!

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Gold Sponsorship – $1000

• Your logo on the event website
• First choice of exhibition space
• Media mentions
• Acknowledgement during the event
• Five minute speaking opportunity during the opening or closing session
• Opportunity to demo your FOSS product, project, or service during the Demo Stream

Silver Sponsorship – $500

• Your logo on the event website
• Second choice of exhibition space
• Acknowledgement during the event
• Two minute speaking opportunity during a meal break
• Opportunity to demo your FOSS product, project, or service during the Demo Stream

Bronze Sponsorship – $150

• Your logo on the event website
• Acknowledgement during the event
• Opportunity to demo your FOSS product, project, or service during the Demo Stream

We’re also looking for sponsors to provide prizes and giveaways and in-kind sponsorship.
Last year, we ran a number of competitions for attendees. We would love your support in the form of a prize of giveaway during SFD. We’re keen
to include prizes for students (primary, secondary, and tertiary levels), for hobbyists, and professional FOSS developers.
In addition, we welcome the support from any organisation who can provide in-kind support: catering, marketing support, venue and
equipment hire, internet connection, activities, etc.
We’re open to suggestions so please contact us with any proposals and ideas!

Kicking off Software Freedom Day 2010

Software Freedom Day events are happening all around New Zealand this year! Keep your ear to the ground for updates!

Check out our website, twitter, statusnet, and facebook pages.

More details on their way soon!