Ubuntu Women recognizes the sponsors of the World Play Day competition:

We thank ZaReason for the sponsorship of a Terra A20 Ubuntu Netbook & USB Necklace

We thank Canonical for the sponsorship of merchandise from the Ubuntu Shop.

We thank Ubuntu User Magazine and Linux Pro Magazine for donating subscriptions for all the winners.

The Dell mini is sponsored by contributions from "Technical Underground" and Ubuntu Women Members.

When asked why ZaReason would like to sponsor the competition and what message they would like the public to know about them? They answered with the following:

"The main message we want to get out to the public is that you don't have to be an expert to have a great computer that runs smoothly year after year. Ubuntu is built to just work and there is a tremendously generous community surrounding its development. These people can often become life-long friends.

As a company, our goal is to normalize the use of Ubuntu so that it's not such a big deal to switch over to using it. We knew that we had reached "success" when we had our first tech support call to which the answer was, "Have you tried turning it on?" When the customer turned the system on, there were no more questions.

There's nothing unique or scary or particularly difficult about using Ubuntu. Whether you are an eight year old little girl or an 80 year old computer consultant helping her 90 year old friend (one of our customers) switch over to free and open software, the transition is well worth it. The Ubuntu community knows that using your computer is supposed to be fun!" ~ZaReason