Re: [Debconf-team] Le Camp contract, 2012-09-27

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>]

On 25/10/12 02:21, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:33:26AM +0200]:
>   
>>>> - Option of Le Camp sponsoring DebConf. If they reduce the price, we
>>>>    could list them as sponsors. I don't have high hopes that they agree
>>>>    to this, but we could at least try.
>>>>         
>>> No. This must be discussed by the debconf-team before making such 
>>> proposal. People was not so happy having the fact accomplished without 
>>> discussion last year (and -team clearly added a note about this for us 
>>> and future debconfs).
>>>       
>> I don't think we have to handle this specially from other sponsorships.
>> We also don't require debconf-team discussion before approaching any
>> other sponsor. So yes nothing can be promised before the team agrees,
>> but we can nevertheless explore the posibility by mentioning it a s an
>> option. And that's the only thing I considered anyway.
>>     
> Thinking this a bit over... I am with Gaudenz here. If we are going to
> work in x venue, and have already the prices, and x venue agrees to
> reduce y% to have us decide to stay with them — They qualify as
> sponsors for the corresponding bracket. Even if we never see the
> money, it's just money we won't have to pay - Just as UCA and the
> national government in DC12, the Srpska government in DC11, Junta de
> Extremadura in DC9.
>
> I believe the problem last year (I might be mistaken) is that UCA gave
> us right away the discounted numbers, implying they usually charged
> way more, and we were not given the chance to consider. But then
> again, given the chance, we would have probably agreed.
>   



I fully agree that such `sponsorships' can be considered, but they
should only be negotiated after we've already explored their normal
prices and if we can see the `value' of the discount in a way that is
measurable.

With Balmer's, for example, we can the prices when someone makes a web
booking, so everyone can see that the discount offered has some `value'