From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 6 11:48:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316F31065670 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:48:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yoanna.savova@cloudsigma.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com (mail-vc0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62828FC16 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:48:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbgb22 with SMTP id gb22so3146032vcb.13 for ; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:48:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=IG01zLVizk6kxsECmKyzl+ZUnE3zlPsq/Ek6c+ufuaI=; b=gxhaAWOR/6BJyvyCs4OB/tCooBrnk4mcLJy/k5GyrkDmh/va6nr08P30dhrZe3ZIbd 4QWkLx0KmgLYU2yqCik5K3pAphUWdIIidJrzGXPSqOcQvD7Ayt1pCtSANW7tGnDRBTJv TWMkvJbaNgJdeDqRr+F3g9UMTRsE3rMAABF1LiwoEn9c60PT/zfQ8KowvicOK0RmaNT0 h+lcuFT/2Subzq0KdQLMcZg7IXotTMBmKbDzg93m8QUnmRj80E2pyvVZGO+3m9dWJa+/ AR8cgp3B5U9GoX0xOeLle7jYMU6ycnN3CX+fBzufklmbH441QEXQSDX7lIO+arIF8hMB CYyw== Received: by 10.52.68.110 with SMTP id v14mr328372vdt.14.1344253721894; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:48:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.59.1.99 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 04:48:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <501F8FC8.3020604@FreeBSD.org> References: <501F8FC8.3020604@FreeBSD.org> From: Yoanna Savova Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:48:01 +0300 Message-ID: To: Matthew Seaman X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkPs6yLC3WL37Y/SQpsz11i1ZqfMzV4bRIsY5fkn1xbMN9gblwRBguLl/dqtdzbg9jgywBs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partnership query X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:48:43 -0000 Hi Mathew, Thank you very much for the explanations and support! We do provide FreeBSD so I have filled in and submitted the form. I will be waiting for an e-mail from your side as stated. Thank you! Regards, Yoanna Savova CloudSigma On 6 August 2012 12:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 06/08/2012 09:15, Yoanna Savova wrote: > > > By way of brief introduction, my name is Yoanna Savova, part of the > > CloudSigma team. We are interested in becoming your partners. We see > there > > are many hardware and software vendors enlisted on your site who offer a > > FreeBSD product. > > Hence, I am interested to fin out how we can do this. Shall we have a > call > > this week? > > Hi, Yoanna, > > Thank you very much for your interest in FreeBSD. I think it would make > an excellent addition to your cloud server OS offering. > > However, one thing that might not be immediately obvious: the FreeBSD > organization is not a commercial entity. We're a bunch of volunteers > who build and maintain this operating system in our spare time. > "Partnering" as such doesn't really fit with the way we work. > > Of course, you are very welcome to *use* FreeBSD and offer it as an > option on your website. You can just do that without needing to ask > anyone. Should you, or your technical team need any assistance with > that, then feel free to ask on this or any of the more specific mailing > lists or IRC channels: it's free, and you will generally get a pretty > fast and accurate response, but that cannot be guaranteed contractually. > > If you do make FreeBSD part of your portfolio, then of course the > project will be glad to add links to your company site on the Hardware > and Software Vendors pages. As it says on the site, simply fill out > this PR form: > > http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html > > with a HTML format paragraph of text describing your FreeBSD related > services in the description field, set the category to 'www' and class > to 'change-request', and add appropriate contact details. (Most of the > other fields in that form can be left empty as they are irrelevant to > your particular request.) The website should be updated with your > details in due course. > > About the closest thing there is to a company supporting FreeBSD at the > moment is the FreeBSD Foundation: it would probably be worth your while > enquiring with them about how your company can benefit from supporting > and being seen to support the FreeBSD project. > > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/contact.shtml > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > > >