Re: [Debconf-team] Platinum Sponsors and press release
Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:15:46PM +0200]:
> >> "Name and description of sponsor in all press re-
> >> leases relating to the conference."
> >
> > Thanks for keeping an eye on these things !
Thanks indeed!
> >> Shall we add a couple of lines regarding them in the registration
> >> email ?
>
> How was this done in the past? I think we had the very same promise for
> platinum sponsors also in previous years. If this included the
> announcment mails, then I'd include it also for this year. Otherwise I'd
> not change it.
We have not done so, but I think it was an oversight. I think we
should include it in official mailings.
> > As I read it, the opening registration announcement is not formally a "Press
> > release", but adding a mention of the platinum sponsors certainly doesn't
> > hurt. What about the following snippet at the very end of the mail:
> >
> > "DebConf13 is happy to be sponsored by its two main sponsors: Google [0]
> > (a corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products
> > which include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising
> > technologies) and the Matanel Foundation [1] (a non-profit foundation
> > that encourages its fellows, progress, creativity, culture and
> > religion).
>
> I'd leave out the descriptions altogehter. Especially the Google
> description sounds a bit weird and we don't know if they would be happy
> with it. What about:
>
> "DebConf13 thanks it's two platinum sponsors: Google
> (http://www.google.com/) and the Matanel Foundation
> (http://www.matanel.org).
I think the short version is better. And, as others suggested, I'd add
"as well as our other sponsors
(http://debconf13.debconf.org/sponsors.xhtml)"
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