Hi there! On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:58:58 +0200, Moray Allan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 01:15:47PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >> actually I somewhat changed my mind here, and think _all_ sponsors, indepent >> of their involvement, should have the opportunity to "spam" us in the >> conference bags. Thats basically how it always was, it's cheap (for us) and >> sponsors like it and expect it, but no sponsor will pay more for this >> opportunity. So I think we should give in to the real world, and just accept >> "spam" from every sponsor who wants to spam^winform us. > > If I remember, you always thought that, but some others successfully > argued for DC12 to make it a benefit for higher levels. (Therefore we > possibly shouldn't change it only because you changed^Wdidn't change > your mind, but have some more discussion first, if anyone cares.) IMHO each sponsor should be able to spam us despite its level: as Holger wrote, this is something sponsors like and it could help attracting more of them. >> I also think these amounts are too high and I like to bring back the steel >> level, with the sole benefit as being listed on one page of our website (as >> opposed to bronze which is on every webpage). > > I would suggest to give it a more different name, e.g. 'Supporter', to > distinguish it from the other levels if this is the only benefit, and > to avoid returning to having too many similar names. In my next proposal (coming up after this email), I used supporter, but it has another benefit, i.e. the sponsor material above. While we could probably give this opportunity starting from bronze (thus separating a bit more the supporter from the other metal levels), it would give almost no benefits to the supporter level. >> IME its way easier to find 5 sponsors for 2000 each, then it is to find one >> for 10000. Last years I heard a lot of complaints from small companies saying > > Really we should be setting all the levels based on previous years' > donations/beliefs about possible actual donation levels, not just > arbitrarily. It probably makes more sense for us to expect companies > to gradually increase donation levels (in the long term) and stay the > same level, or increase more and go up, not to jump up and down levels > each year depending on how much money we need. Well, I disagree, because life does not cost the same in all countries. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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