also sprach Bernelle Verster <bernellev@gmail.com> [2015-04-05 12:21 +0200]:
> 1. Is there info somewhere showcasing the diversity outreach projects?
I don't think this effort has kicked off. There's a bit of stuff
happening around Outreachy and Tom Marble might be a good person to
talk to, as well as David Bremner and Molly le Blanc, if you can get
her interested.
> 2. Has there ever been company specific hack challenges/ BOFs on company
> specific projects? If so, what was the experience? If not, do you think
> this could be valuable, and something sponsors would be willing to pay for?
Not that I know of. Companies have sponsored sprints, but we get
very very very very very protective as soon as money and "content"
meet. Could you elaborate on your idea(s)?
> 3. Please clarify, DCx is the x+1th annual conference, correct? So DC15
> is the 16th, and DC16 will be the 17th annual conference?
Correct. Counting starts at 0.
And while I also agree that we have MiniDebConfs etc., we do have
one main DebConf each year and being able to say that we are
collecting funds for the 16th iteration was IMHO a door-opener too
for DC15.
> 4. I'm thinking of including the Debian family tree as an image
> in the brochure, with a link to the high res version [1]. Do
> you think this is a good idea? This, in my mind, would serve
> as an intro to out-of-industry sponsors, and a handy
> reference point to existing sponsors. I may well be
> mistaken.
Anything goes. I just wouldn't make the brochure too long. It's your
domain though.
> 5. Shall we distinguish DebianDay very specifically? Should
> DebianDay have its own well defined brand?
For a start, DC15 is not having a DebianDay (but an Open Weekened).
I am not sure about this. It's never been a flying success, so it's
not a brand yet.
> 6. Shall we have particular session sponsors? So one more company logo
> in addition to Platinum and Gold for each session, which differs from
> session to session?
From my experience, this will not fly. I tried to suggest naming
meeting rooms after sponsors, and that was voted down.
> 7. What does this mean: TODO we should add a statement about ordering
> within each level so that all sponsors know the rules from the start.
If A pays 110% of B, what does it mean? Initially we thought we
would let A rank before B but we've since come to toss this idea.
Now it's first-come, first-serve, and if you want to pay more than
the level then that's great. Might be worth suggesting a perk
instead, but it's actually favourable to have non-earmarked money.
> 8. Do we want to do a pick-and-choose sponsor model?
This has been tried in the past and it didn't work, i.e. brought us
less income.
> One would work out the pricing such that if the same things get
> chosen the way they are currently structured,
it's already hard to work out pricing for the packages. Why make it
more difficult? We don't have a market to resonate against, so it's
really a single shot.
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