Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:48:01 +0300 From: Yoanna Savova <yoanna.savova@cloudsigma.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partnership query Message-ID: <CAGhc%2BqXVgSFvBBr-Mw1MUZtcOZfGgOua1gPFiZScs2nBhHfLWw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <501F8FC8.3020604@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAGhc%2BqXSU_H1y8Ua3usbevHhcF_jLmpAf=yfATNFZ9=Mtas93Q@mail.gmail.com> <501F8FC8.3020604@FreeBSD.org>
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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 <matthew@freebsd.org> 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 > > >
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