R help - Nov 2012 - Is it possible to be sponsored by R?

Hi the list,

I am a member of the organizing comity of the French Statistics Association
(SFdS)'s conference. We
are looking for sponsors. Some software (SAS, RITME, ...) are represented. Do
you know if there is
any possibility to be sponsored by R (or by an association close to R)? Do you
think I can ask to
the R fondation?

Sincerely
Christophe



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Christophe Genolini
Maître de conférences en bio-statistique
Vice président Communication interne et animation du campus
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense


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Christophe Genolini <cgenolin <at> u-paris10.fr> writes:
> 
> Hi the list,
> 
> I am a member of the organizing comity of the French Statistics
> Association (SFdS)'s conference. We 
> are looking for sponsors. Some software (SAS, RITME, ...) 
> are represented. Do you know if there is 
> any possibility to be sponsored by R (or by an association close to R)?
> Do you think I can ask to 
> the R fondation?
> 
> Sincerely
> Christophe
  I rather doubt it, but it depends what you're looking for. If you
want financial support, I suspect the answer is "almost definitely
not";
if you simply want some kind of symbolic support, then it's "very
probably not".  The board of the R foundation is listed at
http://www.r-project.org/foundation/board.html (with only a postal
contact address ...)  You might post to r-devel at r-project.org, which
is read by some R-Core members (which overlaps with the membership of
the R Foundation).

  These are only my guesses, certainly not definitive.

  Ben Bolker

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Christophe Genolini
<cgenolin at u-paris10.fr> wrote:
> Hi the list,
>
> I am a member of the organizing comity of the French Statistics Association
(SFdS)'s conference. We
> are looking for sponsors. Some software (SAS, RITME, ...) are represented.
Do you know if there is
> any possibility to be sponsored by R (or by an association close to R)? Do
you think I can ask to
> the R fondation?
 If R could sponsor you, do you think the UseR! conference would need sponsors?

 You could try asking the companies that sponsor UseR! - there's a
list on the website, they include Revolution Analytics and RStudio,
who are probably the big two names in the commercial R world.

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012


Barry