# 2023-06-20 NumFocus Business dev meeting ## Qs * How do companies support projects? * E.g. sponsorship, donations, contracting work * How should we be approaching companies for support? ## Notes * How do we have money/ fundraising * Linsday for grants * How to go about this * Currently talking to spyder * NumFOCUS corporate sponsorship * Marketing channels withing numfocus * What are benefits of corporate sponsorship? * Get a call with corporate + numfocus * "Ask for money to accomplish specific tasks" * Ask how other people use these projects * Who are we talking to * Benefits for sponsors * Might be better for small companies * taipy – corporate sponsor * Advertising their org withing the numfocus ecosystem * For B2B, increasing visibility * MDAnalysis * Use case survey to pharmaceutical * Turns out they are having difficulty * Corporate sponsorship prospectus * Interactions with contracting companies * ZS Intomics * Offered support, but what does that mean? * Additional benefits * "contracts" for building out features * Q: what is the presence of pharmaceutical/ biotech within the pydata community? * Who to talk to about these things? * People who are familiar with the tools * But also people who have the funding * Sponsorship for events * Jim – jim@numfocus.org ## Follow up * From Nolan: Examples for how * Projects have been able to hire * Notes from the meeting * Can we do some sort of follow up on how we present ourselves to potential