Hi, On Freitag, 5. April 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > So my thoughts here, are in agreement for different reasons. I > somewhat feel that if there is an official conference bag it should > either have no sponsor logos, or have the logo of all the larger > sponsors as we have done in the past. I understand that logos on bags > are less loved than unlogoed bags (by attendees), but as a member of > sponsors team, it was an additional perk we were able to offer our > larger sponsors that I was somewhat sad to see go away. (In the > future, I think we should try to reinstitute an official conference > bag, but make it nicer than the ones we gave out at DC10, which were > orange for lack of a better word, "synthetic hemp" bags.) Depending on > where future DebConfs are held, I think I will be willing to help make > this happen, if there is a will to revive the "official bag". > > That said, if a sponsor wants to add a bag as swag, I don't have a > problem as long as it isn't the "official conference bag", and they > should just do what they want as far as their logo goes. IE: We > shouldn't provide them with official conference artwork. (Vendor swag > is not a donation to DebConf, so it wouldn't count as sponsorship.) > > If they want to make it the official conference bag, I'd say that's > fine if it either had no sponsor logos, or the higher tiered sponsor > logos (Gold+) were imprinted. 100% agreed and thanks for saving me from writing this. If you dont remember what Brian said here, please read it again. IOW: an bronce (or other minor) sponsor providing official looking conference bags with just their logo and the debconfX logo is *not* ok. That would be an offer we *must* reject and disallow as it will hurt our relation with other sponsors. cheers, Holger
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