Re: [Debconf-team] sponsorship levels
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:55:26PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I honestly think it's a big mistake not to go with sponsorship levels, as was
> "decided" (*) in the sponsorship team meeting:
>
> 1. I believe, that we get more money from sponsors, if they have an incentive
> to spend more money to reach higher levels. Currently it doesnt really matter
> how much money they give. Organizers of other free-software conferences
> supported me in this view.
>
> 2. We need to rate non-money sponsors (bandwidth, hardware, etc) anyway, to
> sort the sponsors by donation on the webpage. Which we already do.
>
> 3. If we have "upper-class" (the 5-7 big ones) sponsors , those are likely to
> be mentioned in press articles. (We can better influence, that our top
> sponsors are mentioned, because thats those from the two highest levels of
> sponsorship.) If we dont have "upper-class" sponsors, the press might choose
> some, which is not really fair to the sponsors who give much money. And as we
> will have >20 sponsors, no article will mention them all.
>
> 4. If we dont have sponsor classes, my (poorly doing) freelancing business is
> thinking of sponsoring debconf too, to get on the t-shirt. I think it's
> riduculous to get on the t-shirt for any sum.
>
> 5. So we have (or need) levels already, but we dont have clear
> boundaries/rules. baaad. Clear rules are much better.
>
> 6. I completly fail to see what not using levels achieves for us and our
> sponsors. OTOH, I can see that also sponsors are happy if they see their
> contribution visible according to their level of contribution.
>
>
> Suggested levels:
>
> label-scheme1 label-scheme2 amount
> critical gold-sponsor >50000 euro
> serious silver-sponsor >25000 euro
> important bronce-sponsor >10000 euro
> normal sponsor > 2000 euro
> minor supporter < 2000 euro
>
> I wouldn't put sponsors below 750 euro on the t-shirt.
>
> (And maybe >30000 _GBP_, >15000GBP, >7500GBP, >2500GBP, >1000GBP are better
> boundaries (for dc7). And 500 GBP minimum to get on the t-shirt.)
>
> And I don't think it's too late to come up with levels now. IMHO we can do
> this til the end of february without looking silly, maybe even later.
>
> I intentionally posted this to -team and not to -sponsors, to make more people
> aware, that we really need more income. Wanna help (contacting more sponsors)?
>
> As we have very little sponsorship money at the moment, I'm also thinking of
> not sponsoring any europeans travelcosts. (And for next year, we should have
> more categories, not only "I need travel or food+accom sponsorship" but
> also "I _want_...")
>
As I already said in IRC (and i think in a previous mail), i like the idea of
the levels.
With this system, *ALL* the sponsors are taken into consideration, the
difference is we highlight sponsors who are contributing more.
Ana
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