Hello, 2024년 6월 4일 (화) 14:21, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org>님이 작성: > > Hi Stefano, > > as far as I understand the calculation below we do not have as much > sponsors as expected. My guess is that it is hard to work on this in > the short time frame we had. Is this due to the fact that long term > "all-past-DebConf-sponsors" did not continued their support for DebConf > or did we just assumed to find sponsors which did not worked? > > In the former case do you think it makes sense if I as DPL might contact > those past sponsors. If you agree could you give me some contact and > possibly some draft we sent for sponsoring requests? > > Possibly a crazy idea but if I think of companies of South Korea Samsung > always comes to mind. Did we asked them for sponsoring and do you think > its a good idea to do so?
I've contacted Samsung and a few others but mostly no response. I admit that the leads were not good enough. They were official "developer relation" contacts or the people from other developers events. If we get better leads who are in charge of FOSS work, it would be worth retries with the DPL title. One bad point is that we are going to be in Busan. Busan is a great city but is suffering from the black hole called Seoul which pulls money and people. I heard they often think it's not an ideal place for running a techie job fair. As one plus point, the local team is contacting a local press about DC24 news and there will be also a press release from Busan City soon. Korean firms tend to be sensitive to actions from government authorities so I hope it helps. -- Changwoo
