Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Sponsorship plans and prices
> I'm not sure what you're saying, IMO they should _also pay money_ in addition
> to giving us their "free" stuff (which is totally unrelated to Debian /
> running DebConf, which makes this different to ie hardware sponsors, which
> neither give us money but which we still count as monetary contribution).
We'll lets say, these "casual" sponsors don't have to pay, what might
turn out of it? There's our venue, and there's dozens of stands in
front of it, where they are promoting their products and giving it out
for free. You'll get a "parasite" symptom where all of them will use
our conference for them to get promoted for free. Which will also
distract people from what's really happening, and that's DebConf.
DebConf will not be held without hardware, however it will be held
without RedBull or beer, so those two are completely different things.
So instead of you having 3 different energy drink companies walking
around "spamming" and thus distracting attendees, they should get one
of the sponsorship packages if they want to be granted permission to
even advertise this product as part of DebConf. Otherwise they'll be
prevented from even gathering or making a stand in front of venue or
wherever.
This is definitely something that should be discussed over.
@Dusan,
> And there are couple of private universities. I'm sure some are
> interesting for "casual" sponsorship.
Now this is completely different, there's no way private university
can be a "casual" sponsor. They won't walk around offering free
scholarships for attendees, they want to pull money from attendees.
So these private universities if they don't get one of the sponsorship
packages, will NOT be granted access to promote their schools just
like that. Not to mention getting their name on tshirts or videos or
wherever without getting a proper sponsorship package.
@Holger, see this is what I meant by that "parasite" symptom.
Adnan
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi Adnan,
>
> On Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2010, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
>> But what you said sounds better, they sponsor you while giving out
>> free stuff, sounds good :)
>>
>> They should at least get the Bronze (cheapest one) package...
>
> I'm not sure what you're saying, IMO they should _also pay money_ in addition
> to giving us their "free" stuff (which is totally unrelated to Debian /
> running DebConf, which makes this different to ie hardware sponsors, which
> neither give us money but which we still count as monetary contribution).
>
> Do you agree on that?
>
>
> cheers,
> Holger
>
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