Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-11-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2013, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Brian Gupta wrote: > > After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following > > sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely > > the same as DC13 with CHF substituted fo

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-29 Thread tony mancill
On 10/24/2013 08:32 AM, Moray Allan wrote: > On 2013-10-24 00:43, Brian Gupta wrote: >> Supporter <2000 USD >> - Logo on sponsor web page > > ^^ > This should presumably read "supporter web page". The intention has > previously been that these aren't formally included as "sponsors" --

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-29 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Brian Gupta wrote: > After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following > sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely > the same as DC13 with CHF substituted for USD). The one change from > DC13 is that we are proposing to a

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Also, we have name badges. Logos can go there too! Maybe we should > > have a 50k sponsorship level with logos on drink cups and/or name > > badges and make Google and HP really compete ;) > > No. The sponsorship team does not need t

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
Richard Hartmann writes: > I don't know anyone who > actually uses conference-provided messenger bags. Does anyone else? Most of them are crappy, but I went through *3* of the ones from LCA in Sydney (friends gave me theirs when I'd wear one out) carrying my HP Elitebooks around the world for se

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Richard Hartmann [2013-10-25 01:56 +0200]: > From a practical POV, tote bags will probably have the highest > chance of actually being used after the conference. I don't know > anyone who actually uses conference-provided messenger bags. Does > anyone else? Agreed. I would love to ha

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-25 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Patty Langasek wrote: > I feel that the bags are a benefit to the conference, and bags are widely > given at "professional" conferences across many different industries. Correct. And for good reason also; it's useful for attendees and it allows a decoupling of t

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Raphaël Walther
Hey, On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:28:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Raphaël Walther [2013.10.24.2121 +0200]: > > I don't understand what you explained. What do you mean by admission ? If > > you > > mean corporate fees i think this not the right approach as we would not get > > th

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:32:13PM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:20:08PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: >> > On 10/24/2013 01:49 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> > >FWIW as a personal data point, I now have too many

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Philipp Hug
> I would prefer like last year not to promise the bag so we leave it as an > option > for us if we have time, money or a generous sponsor to produce the bag. > I agree, better not promise a bag now. > We would not get 500 USD from one participant of the conference who > is associated with the sp

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:32:13PM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:20:08PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > > On 10/24/2013 01:49 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >FWIW as a personal data point, I now have too many DebConf messenger bags > > >and not enough DebConf reusable gr

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Patty Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:20:08PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > On 10/24/2013 01:49 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >FWIW as a personal data point, I now have too many DebConf messenger bags > >and not enough DebConf reusable grocery bags... so I'd be in favor of the > >reusable grocery bag style a

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Allison Randal
On 10/24/2013 01:49 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: FWIW as a personal data point, I now have too many DebConf messenger bags and not enough DebConf reusable grocery bags... so I'd be in favor of the reusable grocery bag style again from DebConf 10. ;) +1, and very appropriate for Portland. Allison

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 04:08:22PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Raphaël Walther wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 07:43:41PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > >> After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following > >> sponsorship levels and registration f

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:28 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Raphaël Walther [2013.10.24.2121 +0200]: >> I don't understand what you explained. What do you mean by admission ? If you >> mean corporate fees i think this not the right approach as we would not get >> this money from the spo

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Patty Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 04:08:22PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > I think we as a group need to decide NOW if conference bags are > something we want, if we want them to happen. (Please weigh in!) I feel that the bags are a benefit to the conference, and bags are widely given at "professional" confe

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Raphaël Walther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 07:43:41PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >> After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following >> sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely >> the same as DC13 with CHF substitu

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:28:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > We would have a new "variable", a new "benefit" and our sponsor > levels would not be almost entirely about in which place the logo > gets placed. > Also: if there are going to be drink cups again (which depends > largely on how ca

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Raphaël Walther [2013.10.24.2121 +0200]: > I don't understand what you explained. What do you mean by admission ? If you > mean corporate fees i think this not the right approach as we would not get > this money from the sponsor. We would not get 500 USD from one participant of the co

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Raphaël Walther
Hey Martin! On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:50:40PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Brian Gupta [2013.10.24.2029 +0200]: > > Would this address the issue, or do you feel it's important to have a > > minimal threshold? > > I am just wondering whether there'd be an "iron" level or so, for >

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Raphaël Walther
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:29:18PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:13 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Brian Gupta [2013.10.24.0143 +0200]: > >> After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following > >> sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC1

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Gupta [2013.10.24.2029 +0200]: > Would this address the issue, or do you feel it's important to have a > minimal threshold? I am just wondering whether there'd be an "iron" level or so, for 1.000 USD. One thing we could do is add one admission to the sponsors at this level, and

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:13 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Brian Gupta [2013.10.24.0143 +0200]: >> After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following >> sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely >> the same as DC13 with CHF substituted for USD

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Brian Gupta
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Moray Allan wrote: > On 2013-10-24 00:43, Brian Gupta wrote: >> >> Supporter <2000 USD >> - Logo on sponsor web page > > > ^^ > This should presumably read "supporter web page". The intention has > previously been that these aren't formally included a

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gaudenz Steinlin [2013.10.24.1809 +0200]: > Also at least for Swiss SMEs the levels did not seem to be too > high. I only talked to Swiss SMEs. -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : DebConf orga team `. `'` `- DebConf14: Portland, OR, USA: http://debconf14.debconf.org murphy's

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Raphaël Walther
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 07:43:41PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following > sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely > the same as DC13 with CHF substituted for USD). The one change from > DC13 is that we are propos

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
martin f krafft writes: > also sprach Brian Gupta [2013.10.24.0143 +0200]: >> After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following >> sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely >> the same as DC13 with CHF substituted for USD). > > The USD is a bit weaker

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-10-24 00:43, Brian Gupta wrote: Supporter <2000 USD - Logo on sponsor web page ^^ This should presumably read "supporter web page". The intention has previously been that these aren't formally included as "sponsors" -- with no minimum, it's a different option rather than

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Gupta [2013.10.24.0143 +0200]: > After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following > sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely > the same as DC13 with CHF substituted for USD). The USD is a bit weaker than the CHF, but one sentiment I

Re: [Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-23 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Brian Gupta wrote: > After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following > sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely > the same as DC13 with CHF substituted for USD). The one change from > DC13 is that we are proposing to a

[Debconf-team] Proposal for sponsorship levels (and registration fees) for DC14

2013-10-23 Thread Brian Gupta
After discussion with sponsors-team we are proposing the following sponsorship levels and registration fees for DC14. (They are largely the same as DC13 with CHF substituted for USD). The one change from DC13 is that we are proposing to add back the bag logo benefit but only for gold+ sponsors rath