Which company or individual can sponsor me on a summer trip to Europe?

Sun Jul 6 06:49:06 IDT 2014

Ok, I'll jump on this wagon,
I also want sponsorship, I ask for half the amount that Shlomi is asking.
I will use the money to buy a sailing yacht and sail around the world, Ok
maybe not around the world but at least in the Mediterranean.
In return to this generous sponsorship I will put the name of the company
on the sails of the yacht.
Note that sail areas is around 30 sqr. meters so there is a huge area for a
big add.
Any takers?

N.B. regard this message a humor (although I would not resist to really get
such donation) I already have my own company, however this company's
earnings at this point allow me to sponsor  a little more then Falafel dish
at a Kiosk stand, it still does not allow me to sponsor neither my own
yacht nor Shlomi's trip.

-- 
Ori Idan

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Geoffrey,
>
> hope you had a great Shabbath by the time you're reading it.
>
> You're raising some interesting points which I'd like to address, and I
> apologise if I weren't clear and explicit before.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
> geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 7/4/2014 8:56 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>>
>>      Hi all,
>>
>>  I wish to go on a Summer trip to Europe (flight to Istanbul and then
>> taking trains) where I:
>>
>>
>>
>> ROTFL.
>>
>> Not only do I not think this belongs on this list, but it's ridiculous.
>>
>
> Why do you feel it does not belong on this list? Many people here offer
> jobs or ask for jobs, and my offer can provide a lot of promotion and
> publicity to a company/individual/organisation who wishes to sponsor me.
>
> Regarding "ridiculous" there is
> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=same-ideas-as-everybody-else
> :
>
> «
>
>  If you have the same ideas as everybody else, but have them one week
> earlier than everyone else - then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if
> you have them five years earlier, you will be named a lunatic.
>
> »
>
> Some of the things I predicted and/or projected are:
>
> * http://www.advogato.org/article/361.html - world-editable screenplays
> for films back in 2001 - I was told it will likely not going to work, but
> now there are many screenplay projects which use wiki-style interfaces, and
> there quite a many successful world-editable-or-almost-world-editable wikis
> out there (e.g: the Wikimedia project, the Wikias,
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes ).
>
> * http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/ - in this story I
> describe FOSS (and to a lesser extent open content/culture) geeks, and
> especially female geeks, as chic, intelligent, attractive, socially
> capable, and sexually assertive, and not only are they mainstream, but they
> are the alphas - the constant object of attraction and often jealousy of
> their peers.
>
> Back after I finished writing it in 2004 and publicised it for scrutiny on
> the linux-elitists mailing list -
> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/conclusions/#review--modus-operandi
> - I was criticised for making it look like being a FOSS/open-culture hacker
> was a gateway to popularity, but now it is quite common all around the
> world, as exemplified by the success of
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory , and not only are
> almost all attractive female attracted to geeks, but most of them are
> geeky[Geeky] themselves, *and* yet they are not socially awkward or
> sexually inept.
>
> [Geeky] - see http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=401 for
> what is a geek , as well as what Paul Graham wrote about amateurs and
> hackers.
>
>
>>
>> If I were in a position to sponsor anyone for more than a felafel at a
>> stand up kiosk, I would consider this so unreasonable that it's just
>> laughable. As I said, IF I were going to fund someone, I might consider a
>> plan that includes 2 $1,000 airplane tickets, and about $1,000 a week for
>> hotel, food, transportation within each country and train fare to the next
>> country, for a week in a country to give 4-5 FOSS lectures, and then move
>> on. You probably could start in the Irish Republic and bounce along to the
>> Russian Republic which would take around 15-20 weeks.
>>
>
> My lectures are not only about FOSS - they are also about free/open
> culture/content, and mix and match other topics such as
> love/romance/relationships, action, humour, history, science, amateur
> philosophy, etc. See:
>
> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/
>
> Anyway, you are right that I probably overestimated the cost and can
> survive on much less.
>
> Regarding Ireland -> Russia - I'm not interested only in software
> development hubs, but in general - every centre of commerce is game for me:
> Rome, Athens, Istanbul, Berlin, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris,
> Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Vienna, Riga, Vilnius, Budapest,
> Bucharest, etc. etc.
>
>
>>
>> Or you could the same thing for about 1.5 times the money in the US,
>> which would take an entire year, one week per state.
>>
>
> I'm:
>
> 1. Not going to .us any time soon.
>
> 2. Not interested in being 100% comprehensive.
>
>
>>
>> But not just for a vacation, or for sponsorship opportunity, you would
>> have to show off your operating system that lots of people use, or your
>> office suite, Nobel Prize, or Olympic Medal.
>>
>
> I have many stories/screenplays, many aphorisms, quotes, Chuck Norris/etc.
> factoids, bits, programs, etc. Many people told me that they recognise my
> homepage and especially its EvilPHish emblem (See
> http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/#evilphish-emblem ) and someone told
> me that I also look exactly like he though I would.
>
> And part of the reason why I'm going on tour is to gain more recognition
> and to practice my stand-up-philosophy.
>
>
>>
>> No use writing an editor, no one is interested in paying RMS to speak,
>> especially since he, as president of the FSF, ex ex *officio*
>> <https://www.google.co.il/search?es_sm=122&q=ex+officio&spell=1&sa=X&ei=yFi2U4mZIIK00wXM_IDQDg&ved=0CBkQvwUoAA>,
>> announced he was supporting the Palestinian Boycott of Israel.
>>
>>
> I didn't write an editor, but I wrote a lot of other useful software apps:
>
> * http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/
>
> *
> http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/ann-my-transition-from-software-developer-to-writerentertaineramateur-philosopherinternet-celebrity.html
>
> Quoting from it:
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> How to Achieve World Domination
>
> A lot of people think that the proper way to achieve world domination is
> to create an architecture that will solve the whole world's problems and
> then some <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html>.
> We've been seeing quite a few of them since *Joel on Software* wrote this
> article: Ruby, Google Go, Node.js, Mozilla's Rust, Clojure, Scala, Perl 6,
> etc. Some of them have or will mature to something truly nice, or have
> inspired a lot of features in other languages, but it's hard for
> plain-old-single-you to compete with them, and here is something
> interesting: not too many people want them.
>
> What do people want? Chuck Norris/etc. factoids, lolcats and other
> captioned images, funny cat videos, parodies of *My Little Pony:
> Friendship is Magic* (♥), photos of attractive (or even not too
> attractive) men and women, screencasts of games or other programs
> (including many open source programs), photos of scenery, new and improved
> recipes for preparing food (and of course - tasty food itself), new, old or
> renovated jokes, and some interesting tales and anecdotes from your life.
> And naturally - programs that can will scratch an itch - however small.
>
> Some people told me that my solver for Freecell and other solitaire games,
> simply called Freecell Solver <http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/> is
> useless, but it's not - it's just a niche program. And I received hundreds
> of E-mails about it. Furthermore, given that Freecell is (or used to be) a
> big phenomenon in Israel, where many boys and girls starting from 18 found
> themselves playing it on the Israeli military
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces> computers out of
> boredom, then the fact that I have written a solver for it, has impressed
> many people I talked with or met, including some attractive (both
> physically and intellectually) young ladies (or what people may refer to as
> "hot chicks"), and they ended up asking me about how it was written, and
> which algorithms it employed.
>
> So Freecell Solver was one of my most successful programs, not despite
> being a niche program, but because of it. Niche programs own. Not only
> that, but niche everything is great. Many people whom I referred to my
> stories <http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/stories/> helped themselves to
> the screenplay Star Trek: "We, the Living Dead"
> <http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/> *because*
> it contained Star Trek in the name, and because there are quite a few fans
> of the *Star Trek* franchise and worlds.
>
> The more of a niche artwork you write, the more a large subset of those
> who like it, are likely to pay attention to it, try it out, and enjoy it.
> For more information, see Eric Sink's excellent and inspiring essay "How
> to get people talking about your product"
> <http://www.ericsink.com/articles/Buzz.html>. For example, DuckDuckGo
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo> was originally marketed as a
> search engine by Perl geeks, and for Perl geeks, and it was a good
> marketing decision because the Perl community is small, cohesive and is at
> a good strategical position to influence other communities. Now, many
> people who are not Perl programmers, are using it, as well as, or even in
> preference to Google, but choosing Perl was a good strategical decision. We
> can expect that with the future growth of DuckDuckGo, that it will use more
> performant technologies than Perl more and more, but it will still owe some
> of its initial success to be a Perl product.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Regarding RMS - I realise he became a persona non-grata in Israel and
> among some pro-Israeli Jews or non-Jews, but:
>
> 1. He is still a great man and a talented speaker (even if he is a very
> quirky fellow - or because of it).
>
> 2. His decision was acceptable given the circumstance.
>
> 3. I don't want to hold a grudge against him forever, because
> vindictiveness is immature. "To err is human, to forgive divine." - see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin .
>
> 4. Other people who wrote competing text editors can still be respected if
> their editors are successful. As usual with most programs out there, most
> programs fail to gain a critical mass, but a minority of them are
> successful. Bram Moolenaar is very respected for writing Vim, which became
> the Emacs of vi clones,  and I Respect the developers of Sublime Text even
> though I dislike the fact that it is non-FOSS. Some software niches don't
> have a visible dominant alternative, e.g: window managers/desktops.
>
> ================
>
> Thanks again and I hope I clarified everything now.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Shlomi Fish
>
>
> --
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>
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>
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