Awesome! Thank you
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > Trevor Grant wrote on 2/16/18 10:40 AM: > > Hey all, > > > > I reached out to GOTO Chicago for info on doing an Apache Booth there. > > They got back to me with pricing, but seemed really interested in having > us > > and like immediately were saying it was totally negotiable / they'd work > > with us. > > Excellent idea, and thanks for working on this kind of stuff! > > > The quoted cost is $10k, not sure if it's worth even pursuing- all I can > > say is that I can work the booth in Chicago. > > > > Does a budget exist for this? Have other for profit conferences given us > > any discounts? Should I just tell them, thanks but that's way out of our > > price range? > > No, we have not paid for booth space at conferences, as far as I recall. > As a non-profit with limited budgets, we need a very specific reason to > pay for things like this; merely having a booth is not something the ASF > would likely pay for. > > The majority of times there's an interesting conference where we have > the volunteers to staff it, and the conference organizers are truly > interested in having an Apache presence there, they end up giving us a > booth free as a non-profit. So going back to them to ask about how they > treat non-profits is likely the next step, if you're up for it. > > > I never thought much of this conference, but it was on that list of > top-10 > > tech conferences that was pushed out a few weeks ago so I started to do > > some research on it. > > > > https://gotochgo.com > > > > > -- > > - Shane > https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
