[Ambassadors] How a company may help FedoraProject ?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jonathan Basse wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> Beside my role of TAM for Red Hat one of my customer came with the following 
> question on my @fedoraproject.org address.
> 
> As I am not really sure how to deal with that any advice would be much 
> appreciate !
> 
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> 
> as we disscussed, I'm very intressed to hear how company's can best help the
> community.
> 
> What lack the Fedora Community to be more successfull in producing a rock
> solid Linux Distribution, As foundation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
> 
> I d'like to make a proposal how we can give the community somthing back
> 
> thx for your feedback mike"
> 
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That's a interesting offer but depends really on what the company's 
expertise is:

* If they are willing to donate hardware or resources, refer 
http://fedoraproject.org/sponsors.

* Bring their applications into the Fedora repository (and EPEL) if they 
are open source

* Assist with testing releases, providing feedback and patches for what 
they consider important at a fraction of the cost required to push 
changes into a commercial product

* Porting. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures

I would suggest asking them to talk to the Fedora Board and establish a 
working relationship that is mutually favourable.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board

Hope that helps.

Rahul