Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:35:04 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: Yoanna Savova <yoanna.savova@cloudsigma.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Partnership query Message-ID: <501F8FC8.3020604@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGhc%2BqXSU_H1y8Ua3usbevHhcF_jLmpAf=yfATNFZ9=Mtas93Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGhc%2BqXSU_H1y8Ua3usbevHhcF_jLmpAf=yfATNFZ9=Mtas93Q@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9249E1FDDA853D0712AA2483 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 th= ere > 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 c= all > 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 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig9249E1FDDA853D0712AA2483 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAfj88ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyqcgCeMbs767m0q9iqNrEBb4714g9i zP0An0DG2E9swsQsOiRkizogkqVy2eWO =CZGQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9249E1FDDA853D0712AA2483--
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