On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 04:36:47PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> 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.
Sounds good to me. A job wall/corner is nothing intrusive and we might as
well have more ads there for people to have a look at.
> 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.
If we really want to be on the safe side, wo could limit this to one day -
e.g. sunday to stretch it away from the time on friday/saturday when people
arrive. But I'm also ok with the whole weekend.
But we should go via debconf*-team channels to backup the idea.
> Also, it would add a big incentive to "go gold" for those sponsors who
> are interested in a booth and able to staff it.
When we do this, we have to keep in mind, that we need food for the people
staffing the booth. I don't think that there will be too many, but just to
remember 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.
I definitely like that. We should not have _too_ much paper junk inside --
mostly because my ecological mind complains -- but that will be limited
through the silver(?)/gold level.
> 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?
I don't know - we need to double check. How was it with the DC13 - they had
this offer as well as far as I remember. But otherwise I'd be willing to
write a mail to the linux magazine gys. Before I do that I'd like to check
if we can find out how it was handled before.
Thanks for the feedback!
Rhalina
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