Re: Status on sponsorship brochure
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:12:27PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@debconf.org> [2014-08-01 13:05 +0200]:
> > I've pushed some changes, and I can look again on Monday.
>
> I may have tonsilitis, lying in bed and not feeling up to anything.
> I think I said everything thus far. Hopefully you guys can put aside
> some time to finish this brochure?
My opinion on the levels:
1. If we go with a jobwall (currently we have "Post on a job wall
located at a central location"), I think we could consider that we allow
bronze sponsors to post there. Right now, the logo on the web is the
only perk they really get. DC13 had lots of bronze sponsors, and this
might attract some more. We could limit it to one A4 page per bronze
sponsor though, and let bigger sponsors post more/larger job ads.
2. Now that we might have an open weekend, I think we should consider
allowing gold/platinum sponsors to have a small booth at that weekend to
present themselves and get into contact with attendees. At the same
time, I think we should make it clear from the beginning that we do
expect sponsors not to advertise proprietary products or otherwise
harass participants. I understand that this is not how we ran DebConf in
the past, but I think it would be worth a try and if we limit it to the
opening weekend, it should not disturb regular attendees too much.
Also, it would add a big incentive to "go gold" for those sponsors who
are interested in a booth and able to staff it.
3. I think we should revive the "Opportunity to provide corporate
materials to be distributed to attendees in their conference bags" perk
from DC12. In general, we have allowed anybody to fill in "goodies"
into the bag at their leisure. I think however there are two
categories: (i) branded "goodies" like pens or notebooks, which mostly
benefit the attendee, and (ii) advertisement material like job offers,
which potentially benefit the sponsor a lot as well. I think the latter
should be reserved for higher-grade sponsors (it was silver and up for
DC12). If we phrase it correctly, we can still allow the goodies from
other sponsors.
4. What about that logo in the Linux Magazine thank-you ad - are we
actually doing this still in practise, and would we need to budget it or
is that an ongoing free offer by Linux Magazine?
Michael
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