On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Patty Langasek <harmo...@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 > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Patty Langasek > harmo...@dodds.net > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > At times, you may end up far away from home; you may not be > sure of where you belong, anymore. But home is always > there... because home is not a place. It's wherever your > passion takes you. > --- J. Michael Straczynski > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
