[OSM-talk-nl] Fwd: sponsoring OSM

[Steve Coast]

Guys can you handle?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Remco van Zuijlen <remcovz at xs4all.nl>
> Date: 11 July 2007 15:25:05 BDT
> To: steve at asklater.com
> Subject: sponsoring OSM
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> I am also a contributor to the OSM community, and I would like to  
> inform you
> of the fact that XS4ALL Internet BV, a leading internet provider in  
> the
> Netherlands offers sponsorships for special innovative and opensource
> projects.
>
> from the website of XS4ALL:
>
> "XS4ALL's sponsorship projects are projects which fit in with the  
> company's
> social activities in the field of security, privacy and freedom of  
> speech or
> in which open source philosophy, technical development and  
> innovation play a
> central role."
>
> (you can read the whole text on:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/uk/overxs4all/sponsoring/)
>
> Sponsoring may include sponsoring of hardware, storage, loadbalancing,
> colocating in one of the datacenters XS4ALL owns.
>
> Also because AND gives their map of the Netherlands to OSM, it may be
> getting busier on the OSM servers because of the increase of the dutch
> users, and an OSM 'presence' in Amsterdam may also help a lot :)
>
> If you send a request to sponsoring at xs4all.nl, telling who you are,  
> what you
> represent, and what OSM does, also mentioning what you need, I  
> think you
> have a 90% chance of getting the sponsorship :)
>
> btw: I work at XS4ALL myself as a network/system administrator, but  
> I am not
> at all involved with sponsoring requests xs4all receives. I just  
> know it
> exists, and I think OSM should get a chance.
>
> Give it a thought, it's worth a try.
>
> Remco (user remco on the wiki)
>
> -- 
> Remco van Zuijlen <remco at xs4all.net>
>

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/