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Re: [Debconf-team] Conference bag proposal



On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Patty Langasek <harmoney@dodds.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:59:42AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> On Dienstag, 23. April 2013, Patty Langasek wrote:
>> > Did we find out how much those bags would be "worth"
>
>> they are worth "nothing", from an organizer POV - we can do debconf pretty
>> well without them.
>
> I meant what their value would be; how much will they cost the company to
> donate them?
>
> We can do debconf pretty well without a lot of things, but sponsors should
> still get credit even if they earmark donations to something that's not a
> direct "necessity" to coordinating or hosting the conference.
>
> What you're suggesting is that high quality bags would just be high
> price-tagged swag, in which case, there should be no requirements placed on
> the donating company at all, just as we don't require other sponsors to
> print or limit what they distribute to attendees otherwise.
>
> For the record, I don't like that suggestion; we've had nice bags several
> years, and they come in handy well after the conference is over.  They're
> nice to have specifically at the venue, too.  We have an option to get nice
> bags again this year, with little to no cost to the conference, and that
> should be a factor in how we acknowledge this sponsor.

According to our site, there are currently 3 Gold+ sponsors. Unless
someone strongly objects I think we need to take this back to
sponsors-team and reach out to our existing Gold+ sponsors as I
proposed yesterday.

BTW - Since these would effectively become our official conference
bags, I do feel that crediting them for the cost of production would
make sense. We'd need to know how much they spent, to know whether or
not this would move them to a silver position, but I am almost with 100%
certainty sure that the cost of the bags would not elevate them to a Gold
sponsorship tier.

Thanks,
-Brian

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