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# 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 