[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] french university, nokia, maemo, sponsor.

[From: Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

Hi,

We're students at the university of Orléans (France).
We have just opened and inaugurated a bradn new open source software
mirror (http://www.etud-orleans.fr/, mirroring GPL, BSD-Like,...). The
site is hosted on a dedicated serveur but the FTP mirror is on the
University Data Center (622Mbps fiber connection, Renater Network...)

Well. We have a non-profit foundation and would like to concentrate on
developping application for meamo.

We are all running Linux, Debian and Fedora.
We already manage dedicated servers for several non-profits foundations too.

Our roadmap would be to first package the maemo for the distributions we
use, translate to french the maximum of the documentation then begin
creating little applications, then grow slowly.
We will also plan to port some interesting applications such as VLC
(http://www.videolan.org, which has a port on iPAQ/Familiar-Linux)

What we miss is the phones: We need phones to test our developpement.
We are still "little" to buy the devices. How would you suggest us to be
sponsorised?

Things we can do is to advertise for Nokia on our website, and advertise
student to buy Nokias. We could also wear Nokia T-Shirts, make some
marketing...

Have you got some tips? A contact, an E-Mail address,...

Thank you.

-- 
Miroir de logiciels libres        http://www.etud-orleans.fr
Universite d'Orleans              http://www.univ-orleans.fr