Sponsorship of Software Freedom Day

Software Freedom Day is a global event with over 100 countries participating. By supporting Software Freedom Day, not only are you helping get the word out about why sustainable and trustworthy systems are important, but you are aligning your company with others involved in the rapidly growing FOSS market. We are interested in both direct sponsorship and in-kind donations, so please contact us here.

Sponsors:

	Canonical have supported Software Freedom Day from the first year and continue to support the aims and vision of Software Freedom Day. A big thank you to Canonical for its long term support!
	Google generously supported Software Freedom Day for the first time in 2007, and we're pleased to have them on board in 2011 again.
	Linode has been supporting Software Freedom Day with infrastructure support since 2008. Thanks Linode!
	The FSF has helped with shipping swags to the US teams in the early days and now sponsors the Best Event Competition since 2010. We also collaborate on some of the materials we distribute and regularly discuss about improving our message. Many thanks to the Free Software Foundation for their continuous support of Software Freedom Day!
	Lemote sponsored three YeeLoong Netbooks (The Fee Software Portable Computers) for SFD Competition prizes in 2011. welcome on board and thanks Lemote for their support!

Media Sponsors:

	Linux Magazine came on as Software Freedom Day's first media sponsor in 2007 and we are very happy to have them again to support us since 2010
	Ubuntu User Magazine has joined Software Freedom Day as media sponsor since 2010 to help us to spread the word out! Thank you very much!
	Admin Network & Security Magazine just joined Software Freedom Day as media sponsor in 2011 to help us to spread the word out! Welcome aboard!
	Smart Developer Magazine just joined Software Freedom Day as media sponsor since 2011 to help us to spread the word out! Welcome aboard!
	Linux Journal just joined Software Freedom Day as media sponsor since 2011 to help us to spread the word out! Welcome aboard!

Supporting Organizations:

	Creative Commons has been an early supporter of Software Freedom Day regularly reminding and encouraging its community to participe. We only formally got in touch early 2012 to discuss about Culture Freedom Day and we are expecting to see more joined initiative in the near future. So many thanks to Creative Commons for the early and continuous support of Software Freedom Day!
	The FreeBSD Foundation joined us as a partner in 2011, many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for their encouragement and support of Software Freedom Day!
	Joomla! joined us as a partner in 2011, many thanks to Joomla! for their encouragement and support of Software Freedom Day!
	Similarly to Creative Commons we only got in touch with The Open Clipart Library for Culture Freedom Day early 2012. We have in fact been in touch with the project leaders for quite some time through the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group and never really thought of using our joint resources to promote Software Freedom together. We are very excited that we finally came to start the discussion and hope to see great things coming out of this partnership.
	Many thanks to the Free Software Foundation Europe for their encouragement and support of Software Freedom Day in Europe!