Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:48:17 +0100 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi, On Samstag, 25. Februar 2012, Felix Delattre wrote: * Can we move Logo printed on conference bag from silver to bronze? I believe that we can get more local support if we do that. Local team, what do you think? Hm, I really like the way we have now: bronce=website, silver=tshirt (short for cloth), gold=video, platinum=premium partner. It's easy to remember and thus to explain,. moving the logo on the bag to bronce would break this. (and we would make the higher category slightly less valuable...) that said, I'm not strictly against moving. But quite a bit ;) Yes, I really like how levels are defined as well. From my local company owner POV is less atractive, but. we need to try to do our best to get local sponsors with those levels. So, we have levels! :) and sponsorship_brochure_en ready :) yey Saludos -- Norman García nor...@riseup.net pgpDmoBV7wcYP.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Hi, On Sonntag, 19. Februar 2012, Moray Allan wrote: And after some more discussion with Gunnar, here's a late-night proposal taking this a stage further, rearranging benefits to make clearer distinctions: after some discussion with Moray, here's a late morning revision, where we shuffled some benefits slightly. We suggest to put these numbers and benefits on the website now, as well as into the sponsorship brochure. Then, we can still review+discuss this in our team meeting in two weeks, after we had some feedback from amicable sponsors. BRONZE - Starting from $2000 for anyone and from $1000 for local, Central- American sponsors. - Logo on our website / Logo en las páginas web. - Logo included in full-page thank you ad in Linux Magazine worldwide / Logo en una página de agradecimientos de la revista Linux Magazine SILVER - starting from $5,000 Benefits from bronze, and also: - Logo printed on conference t-shirts / Logo impreso en las camisetas - Logo printed on conference bag / Logo impreso en las bolsas - Opportunity to provide corporate materials to be distributed to attendees in their conference bags GOLD - starting from $12,500 Benefits from silver, and also: - Logo printed larger and in superior position / Logo de tamaño y colocación especial - Logo in video streams and recordings / Logo en las transmisiones de vídeo. - Logo on banner in conference lobby / Logo en rótulo a la entrada de la conferencia PLATINUM - starting from $25,000 Benefits from gold, and also: - Logo on banner behind talk podiums / FIXMYSPANISH - 45 minute slot for giving a free software related talk / Espacio de 45 minutos para dar una charla relacionada con el software libre - Name and description of sponsor in all press releases relating to the conference / Nombre y descripción en todos los communicados de prensa relacionados con la conferencia in plain, short english: - bronze = logo on website - silver = logo on tshirt - gold = logo on video - platinum = super Debian supporter! cheers, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Hi, On Sonntag, 19. Februar 2012, Moray Allan wrote: However the levels are set, we should probably add a statement to this effect: The size and order of sponsor logos in promotional materials will be set according to the amount of sponsorship received from each sponsor. yes we should do this. As fine print :-D and add a message along these lines: We also invite sponsors, in addition to their basic sponsorship, to sponsor a specific part of the conference. These are some of the opportunities available -- please contact the sponsorship team to discuss prices and other details: _This_ OTOH we should advertise boldly on http://debconf12.debconf.org/become- sponsor.xhtml as it's not as known as it could be and sponsors like to be special :-) Lecture and meeting rooms Conference banquet Tourist outing Attendee travel bursaries Sponsored meals for attendees Sponsored accommodation for attendees + busses for day trip etc + coffee or snacks + maybe prizes for fixing bugs or such I'd be happy if this is on to the webpage - it's only suggestsions after all. I'd just stress this is for _existing_ sponsors, so we are happy about a bronce (or whatever) sponsor to also sponsors, eg, pizzas. We just dont want a company to only sponsor something cheap but with high visibility, that's why this is only for existing sponsors. cheers, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Hi, after some more thinking I'd like to amend myself, with - I believe - editorial changes ;-) On Samstag, 25. Februar 2012, Holger Levsen wrote: BRONZE - Starting from $2000 for anyone and from $1000 for local, Central- American sponsors. - Logo on our website / Logo en las páginas web. + link back to the company homepage. (If some company'd want a deeper link, I try to get some additional sponsorship for that ;-) - Logo included in full-page thank you ad in Linux Magazine worldwide / Logo en una página de agradecimientos de la revista Linux Magazine SILVER - starting from $5,000 Benefits from bronze, and also: - Logo printed on conference t-shirts / Logo impreso en las camisetas - Logo printed on conference bag / Logo impreso en las bolsas - Opportunity to provide corporate materials to be distributed to attendees in their conference bags GOLD - starting from $12,500 Benefits from silver, and also: - Logo printed larger and in superior position / Logo de tamaño y colocación especial - Logo in video streams and recordings / Logo en las transmisiones de vídeo. - Logo on banner in conference lobby / Logo en rótulo a la entrada de la conferencia PLATINUM - starting from $25,000 Benefits from gold, and also: - Status as DebConf12 Conference Enabling Sponsor - Name and description of sponsor in all press releases relating to the conference / Nombre y descripción en todos los communicados de prensa relacionados con la conferencia [move up] - Logo on banner behind talk podiums / FIXMYSPANISH [explicit talk benefit removed] in plain, short english: - bronze = logo on website - silver = logo on tshirt - gold = logo on video - platinum = super Debian supporter! platinum = DebConf12 conference enabling sponsor How does this sound? cheers, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Holger Levsen dijo [Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 01:14:29PM +0100]: Lecture and meeting rooms Conference banquet Tourist outing Attendee travel bursaries Sponsored meals for attendees Sponsored accommodation for attendees + busses for day trip etc + coffee or snacks + maybe prizes for fixing bugs or such I'd be happy if this is on to the webpage - it's only suggestsions after all. I'd just stress this is for _existing_ sponsors, so we are happy about a bronce (or whatever) sponsor to also sponsors, eg, pizzas. We just dont want a company to only sponsor something cheap but with high visibility, that's why this is only for existing sponsors. You mean only returning sponsors can sponsor a thing? ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Holger Levsen dijo [Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 01:02:19PM +0100]: after some discussion with Moray, here's a late morning revision, where we shuffled some benefits slightly. We suggest to put these numbers and benefits on the website now, as well as into the sponsorship brochure. Then, we can still review+discuss this in our team meeting in two weeks, after we had some feedback from amicable sponsors. (...) Just FTR, that's perfectly OK with me. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Holger Levsen dijo [Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 03:32:13PM +0100]: Hi, after some more thinking I'd like to amend myself, with - I believe - editorial changes ;-) Fear! BRONZE - Starting from $2000 for anyone and from $1000 for local, Central- American sponsors. - Logo on our website / Logo en las páginas web. + link back to the company homepage. (If some company'd want a deeper link, I try to get some additional sponsorship for that ;-) We should not nitpick on that. We should just request an URL, any URL. Sometimes the funds come from a very specific department in a complicated structrue, and they want to make themselves visible. We should not dictate if it's www.h01ger.eu or https://holgi:sek...@www.h01ger.eu/FreeSoftware/projects?projectid=3task=video PLATINUM - starting from $25,000 Benefits from gold, and also: - Status as DebConf12 Conference Enabling Sponsor What does status mean? Is it an extra title besides the metallic sounding name? - Logo on banner behind talk podiums / FIXMYSPANISH Logo impreso en el podio del ponente (FIXMYSPANISH) [explicit talk benefit removed] Ok... Nobody has ever requested this, but if they did in exchange for a truckload of cash, I think we would accept anyway ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: You mean only returning sponsors can sponsor a thing? I think the point was that you shouldn't be able to *only* sponsor, say, a single special pizza delivery, and have your name advertised around this, getting more publicity than another sponsor who gives us $50,000 that we use to buy food for the rest of the week. So I think it's not returning sponsors, but that there's some minimum sponsorship (not mathematically defined, at least so far) to qualify. It's better for us if everyone just gives unrestricted money, rather than money for specific items so that we can't match our own priorities. -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Moray Allan dijo [Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 04:51:32PM +]: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: You mean only returning sponsors can sponsor a thing? I think the point was that you shouldn't be able to *only* sponsor, say, a single special pizza delivery, and have your name advertised around this, getting more publicity than another sponsor who gives us $50,000 that we use to buy food for the rest of the week. So I think it's not returning sponsors, but that there's some minimum sponsorship (not mathematically defined, at least so far) to qualify. It's better for us if everyone just gives unrestricted money, rather than money for specific items so that we can't match our own priorities. Right. I won't get into nitpicking details (I have to go to $blue_room soon), but it sounds sane. Blurry, but sane. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: Holger Levsen dijo [Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 03:32:13PM +0100]: after some more thinking I'd like to amend myself, with - I believe - editorial changes ;-) Fear! Indeed. + link back to the company homepage. (If some company'd want a deeper link, I try to get some additional sponsorship for that ;-) We should not nitpick on that. We should just request an URL, any URL. Sometimes the funds come from a very specific department in a complicated structrue, and they want to make themselves visible. We should not dictate if it's www.h01ger.eu or https://holgi:sek...@www.h01ger.eu/FreeSoftware/projects?projectid=3task=video I agree here -- the other use people made of deeper links was tracking, and I don't think there's much reason to charge them more just for being too lazy to scan their referrer logs. PLATINUM - starting from $25,000 Benefits from gold, and also: - Status as DebConf12 Conference Enabling Sponsor What does status mean? Is it an extra title besides the metallic sounding name? Holger wants to give a special name outside the normal series, AIUI. I can see the reasoning, but I'm not sure that DebConf12 Conference Enabling Sponsor will appeal to people more than Platinum Sponsor. - Logo on banner behind talk podiums / FIXMYSPANISH Logo impreso en el podio del ponente (FIXMYSPANISH) [explicit talk benefit removed] Ok... Nobody has ever requested this, but if they did in exchange for a truckload of cash, I think we would accept anyway Indeed. How about we leave it as an internally-documented option, but we don't push it in the sponsor pack? Holger seems mostly concerned that it confuses people / that it takes a lot of words to explain what we mean. -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Hi, On Samstag, 25. Februar 2012, Moray Allan wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: + link back to the company homepage. (If some company'd want a deeper link, I try to get some additional sponsorship for that ;-) We should not nitpick on that. Absolutly not. But OTOH I would usually say link points to the company homepage, if you want it somewhere else, can you give me a few hundred dollars more ;-) So obviously not nitpick on this, but rather try to sell us a bit better. ;-) Ok... Nobody has ever requested this, but if they did in exchange for a truckload of cash, I think we would accept anyway Indeed. How about we leave it as an internally-documented option, but we don't push it in the sponsor pack? Holger seems mostly concerned that it confuses people / that it takes a lot of words to explain what we mean. Yup. Selling talks is not 100% ethical and we would accept _any_ bought talk anyway. And it's considered odd - at least in Debian context (Debian is about freedom!!1) and thats where we are. So I want something non-odd, and thats platinum,premium,whatever conference _partner_. And of course, if a partner has a very interesting talk (or such), we will take many efforts to get this talk in. As such, I like this way better than saying for 25k you buy a talk. I dont want to sell this, and I dont think companies are actually interested in buying this. Becoming a conferece partner, enablerm, OTOH, IMO sounds way more compelling. cheers, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Hi, On Samstag, 18. Februar 2012, Andrew McMillan wrote: I think you missed my point... I was not trying to say whether or not the ranges were correct, I was trying to say we should *announce* exact prices and then allow for individual cases to be negotiated. ok, got it now, thanks for the clarification. If we say up to $2000 then $SPONSOR comes along and says I've got $500 available, so I'd like to buy a Steel sponsorship. $SPONSOR2 comes along and says I want a Bronze sponsorship for $2001 please. I don't think that anyone here would think either of those scenarios is 'fair play', and so we should instead announce our *target* prices. This would allow us to retain greater control over when, and whether, the prices would be relaxed in individual cases. and I disagree. (or well...I agree.) What we list are target prices so to say. Negotitions might be possible (but are the exceütion and are certainly not cc:ed to press@ as this mail is) instead rather discussed and approved within the team on #debconf-sponsors (which is not logged like eg this list). Sleep for real now. I hope things become clearer now. cheers, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
On Sonntag, 19. Februar 2012, Moray Allan wrote: However the levels are set, we should probably add a statement to this effect: The size and order of sponsor logos in promotional materials will be set according to the amount of sponsorship received from each sponsor. and add a message along these lines: We also invite sponsors, in addition to their basic sponsorship, to sponsor a specific part of the conference. These are some of the opportunities available -- please contact the sponsorship team to discuss prices and other details: Lecture and meeting rooms Conference banquet Tourist outing Attendee travel bursaries Sponsored meals for attendees Sponsored accommodation for attendees /me likes. /me doesn't like Gunnars bureaucratic extension ;) ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Hi, On Freitag, 17. Februar 2012, Moray Allan wrote: I'm a bit confused here -- Andrew was suggesting that we advertise each level as starting a little above the actual lower threshold (to give negotiating room), whereas you seem to be saying we should change some thresholds, including lowering them for the higher levels? I'm not necessarily complaining if so, just confused as the current thresholds were your own proposal in the last meeting, and because it's a different topic from what Andrew was saying. :) I was also assuming that Andrew's published levels were *minimums*, whereas you are saying up to for the same amounts. Actually I didnt read his proposal like this. And if I would, 2000$ would be a too high entry for steel, 5k too high for bronze and so on. Can we decide as two separate questions what the levels should be and how we'll advertise them? -- Or, equivalently, decide one set of level thresholds, but slightly higher than we will truly insist on. I'd advertise the levels as we want them and only as a total exception negoiate them down. If we do that and don't change anything else there's a rather small difference in benefit between silver and gold, for a large price difference -- are you also proposing to move another benefit down to gold from platinum? If we dont that, the diff between bronze+silver is too little (IMO), so I rather have little diff between silver+gold, as I think companies will opt for gold rather for perceived benefits of being gold instead of silver (=more generous to Debian, eg) instead of the real benefits. cheers, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 20:32 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, (press, please scroll down to the end of this mail :) On Freitag, 17. Februar 2012, Andrew McMillan wrote: It's a small point, but clearly if I paid $30k I get to choose my level? sure. but what do you mean with that in practice? :) I think these levels should primarily have a published level, like: Steel: $2000 Bronze: $5000 Silver: $15000 Gold: $3 Platinum: $5 I agree. (with published level) or maybe those last three are $10k, $25k, $40k or $10k, $20k, $35k Actually I think the last three should like this: so: Steel: up to $2000 Bronze: up to $5000 Silver: up to $12500 Gold: up to $25000 Platinum: more then $25000 I think you missed my point... I was not trying to say whether or not the ranges were correct, I was trying to say we should *announce* exact prices and then allow for individual cases to be negotiated. If we say up to $2000 then $SPONSOR comes along and says I've got $500 available, so I'd like to buy a Steel sponsorship. $SPONSOR2 comes along and says I want a Bronze sponsorship for $2001 please. I don't think that anyone here would think either of those scenarios is 'fair play', and so we should instead announce our *target* prices. This would allow us to retain greater control over when, and whether, the prices would be relaxed in individual cases. Regards, Andrew. -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Flexibility is overrated. Constraints are liberating. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Hi, On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:32:52PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, (press, please scroll down to the end of this mail :) yup :) I would also give these sponsors the logos on the video streams+recordings. Compared to http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml this removes 'logo on bag' from Steel, and swaps the ordering of 'logo on banner' and 'logo in video streams and recordings', and adds the new 'mention in press releases' for Platinum. Those seem like reasonable changes to me (assuming the press team agree to the latter). let's ask them, cc:ing them. What kind of mention do you have in mind? Something in-line inside the Debconf12 to start in a week announcement (i.e. The Debian Project is pleased to announce that blablabla yadayada. [...] We also want to thanks our sponsor $sponsorname who helps in making it possible blablabla yadayada.) or a separate announcement thanking Platinum sponsors for their support? (Probably the last one is better, but it also depends on how many Platinum sponsors we will have) Any of these options are fine for me. cheers, Holger Thank you for your work, after having attended my first DebConf last year I can just say that it is *really* *really* appreciated. :) Cheers, Francesca -- Nostra patria è il mondo intero e nostra legge è la libertà ed un pensiero ribelle in cor ci sta. P.Gori signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
OK, to make things clear, I think these are the numbers Holger is now suggesting: STEEL - Starting from $1,000 Logo on our website / Logo en las páginas web. Logo included in full-page thank you ad in Linux Magazine worldwide / Logo en una página de agradecimientos de la revista Linux Magazine BRONZE - starting from $2,000 Benefits from steel, and also: Logo printed on conference t-shirts / Logo impreso en las camisetas Logo printed on conference bag / Logo impreso en las bolsas SILVER - starting from $5,000 Benefits from bronze, and also: Logo on banner in conference lobby / Logo en rótulo a la entrada de la conferencia Logo on banner behind talk podiums Logo in video streams and recordings / Logo en las transmisiones de vídeo. Opportunity to provide corporate materials to be distributed to attendees in their conference bags GOLD - starting from $12,500 Benefits from silver, and also: Logo printed larger and in superior position / Logo de tamaño y colocación especia PLATINUM - starting from $25,000 Name and description of sponsor in all press releases relating to the conference / Nombre y descripción en todos los communicados de prensa relacionados con la conferencia 45 minute slot for giving a free software related talk / Espacio de 45 minutos para dar una charla relacionada con el software libre I've taken out logo on all materials as I don't really see what it would apply to validly, and we'd never be able to put it on everything -- if you liked this item, please add it back with a more explicit list of what it applies to! -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org wrote: OK, to make things clear, I think these are the numbers Holger is now suggesting: STEEL - Starting from $1,000 Logo on our website / Logo en las páginas web. Logo included in full-page thank you ad in Linux Magazine worldwide / Logo en una página de agradecimientos de la revista Linux Magazine Bdale points out that we probably have too many levels. I've just looked over the amounts given by sponsors in the past couple of years, how about we make this $1000 threshold only available to Central American sponsors, and advertise the $2000 threshold as the lowest one for international sponsors? (If that seems a good idea to anyone, you'd then separately need to decide whether to leave the distribution of benefits as-is or shift things around so that the international bronze and silver levels are more distinguished.) -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
However the levels are set, we should probably add a statement to this effect: The size and order of sponsor logos in promotional materials will be set according to the amount of sponsorship received from each sponsor. and add a message along these lines: We also invite sponsors, in addition to their basic sponsorship, to sponsor a specific part of the conference. These are some of the opportunities available -- please contact the sponsorship team to discuss prices and other details: Lecture and meeting rooms Conference banquet Tourist outing Attendee travel bursaries Sponsored meals for attendees Sponsored accommodation for attendees -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Moray Allan dijo [Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:05:40AM +]: Bdale points out that we probably have too many levels. I've just looked over the amounts given by sponsors in the past couple of years, how about we make this $1000 threshold only available to Central American sponsors, and advertise the $2000 threshold as the lowest one for international sponsors? (If that seems a good idea to anyone, you'd then separately need to decide whether to leave the distribution of benefits as-is or shift things around so that the international bronze and silver levels are more distinguished.) Right, I agree with this — I'd do it this way: - Steel level disappears, is completely merged into bronze - Bronze is advertised as staring at US$2000 - People seeking Central-American sponsorship can tell a prospective sponsor, we are offering local sponsors to start at US$1000 - This is *not* officially advertised. Of course, it is not secret (i.e. mail lists are available and all ;-) ), but the official lowest level is still 2000. Like it? signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Moray Allan dijo [Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:07:21AM +]: and add a message along these lines: We also invite sponsors, in addition to their basic sponsorship, to sponsor a specific part of the conference. These are some of the opportunities available -- please contact the sponsorship team to discuss prices and other details: Lecture and meeting rooms Conference banquet Tourist outing Attendee travel bursaries Sponsored meals for attendees Sponsored accommodation for attendees Adding to it (better redaction welcome!): Sponsorship for each of those items will still get you to the same sponsorship bracket you would otherwise get for the same money, and is an extra incentive (or maybe adding a... 10% extra to each of the brackets to prompt potential sponsors to give us that little extra to get their name more prominent?) signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Moray Allan mo...@sermisy.org wrote: Bdale points out that we probably have too many levels. And after some more discussion with Gunnar, here's a late-night proposal taking this a stage further, rearranging benefits to make clearer distinctions: BRONZE - Starting from $2000 for anyone [or special $1000 deal for local sponsors] Logo on our website / Logo en las páginas web. Logo included in full-page thank you ad in Linux Magazine worldwide / Logo en una página de agradecimientos de la revista Linux Magazine SILVER - starting from $5,000 Benefits from bronze, and also: Logo printed on conference t-shirts / Logo impreso en las camisetas Logo printed on conference bag / Logo impreso en las bolsas Logo in video streams and recordings / Logo en las transmisiones de vídeo. GOLD - starting from $12,500 Benefits from silver, and also: Opportunity to provide corporate materials to be distributed to attendees in their conference bags Logo printed larger and in superior position / Logo de tamaño y colocación especial Logo on banner in conference lobby / Logo en rótulo a la entrada de la conferencia Logo on banner behind talk podiums PLATINUM - starting from $25,000 Name and description of sponsor in all press releases relating to the conference / Nombre y descripción en todos los communicados de prensa relacionados con la conferencia 45 minute slot for giving a free software related talk / Espacio de 45 minutos para dar una charla relacionada con el software libre -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
Hi, (press, please scroll down to the end of this mail :) On Freitag, 17. Februar 2012, Andrew McMillan wrote: It's a small point, but clearly if I paid $30k I get to choose my level? sure. but what do you mean with that in practice? :) I think these levels should primarily have a published level, like: Steel: $2000 Bronze: $5000 Silver: $15000 Gold: $3 Platinum: $5 I agree. (with published level) or maybe those last three are $10k, $25k, $40k or $10k, $20k, $35k Actually I think the last three should like this: so: Steel: up to $2000 Bronze: up to $5000 Silver: up to $12500 Gold: up to $25000 Platinum: more then $25000 Then the ranges that are listed are the 'negotiating room' which is available. We can recognise that a poorer company (or a local one) who is being a good citizen by sponsoring DebConf can get a Bronze sponsorship for $3000 (e.g), etc. right. On Freitag, 17. Februar 2012, Moray Allan wrote: SILVER - $5,000 to $15,000 Benefits from bronze, and also: Logo on banner in conference lobby / Logo en rótulo a la entrada de la conferencia I would also give these sponsors the logos on the video streams+recordings. Compared to http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml this removes 'logo on bag' from Steel, and swaps the ordering of 'logo on banner' and 'logo in video streams and recordings', and adds the new 'mention in press releases' for Platinum. Those seem like reasonable changes to me (assuming the press team agree to the latter). let's ask them, cc:ing them. cheers, Holger ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: On Freitag, 17. Februar 2012, Andrew McMillan wrote: I think these levels should primarily have a published level, like: Steel: $2000 Bronze: $5000 Silver: $15000 Gold: $3 Platinum: $5 I agree. (with published level) or maybe those last three are $10k, $25k, $40k or $10k, $20k, $35k Actually I think the last three should like this: Steel: up to $2000 Bronze: up to $5000 Silver: up to $12500 Gold: up to $25000 Platinum: more then $25000 I'm a bit confused here -- Andrew was suggesting that we advertise each level as starting a little above the actual lower threshold (to give negotiating room), whereas you seem to be saying we should change some thresholds, including lowering them for the higher levels? I'm not necessarily complaining if so, just confused as the current thresholds were your own proposal in the last meeting, and because it's a different topic from what Andrew was saying. :) I was also assuming that Andrew's published levels were *minimums*, whereas you are saying up to for the same amounts. Can we decide as two separate questions what the levels should be and how we'll advertise them? -- Or, equivalently, decide one set of level thresholds, but slightly higher than we will truly insist on. On Freitag, 17. Februar 2012, Moray Allan wrote: SILVER - $5,000 to $15,000 Benefits from bronze, and also: Logo on banner in conference lobby / Logo en rótulo a la entrada de la conferencia I would also give these sponsors the logos on the video streams+recordings. If we do that and don't change anything else there's a rather small difference in benefit between silver and gold, for a large price difference -- are you also proposing to move another benefit down to gold from platinum? -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
[Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
It appears that we still didn't manage to agree sponsorship levels for DebConf12, so here's something concrete we could approve if it looks fine to everyone, or modify if people have better ideas. I would especially like comments (soon!) from anyone who worked on the sponsorship team for a previous DebConf. Here's what I think is currently proposed, based on modifying http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12/SponsorPack to take into account the discussion in the last meeting. STEEL - $1,000 to $2,000 Logo on our website / Logo en las páginas web. Logo included in full-page thank you ad in Linux Magazine worldwide / Logo en una página de agradecimientos de la revista Linux Magazine BRONZE - $2,000 to $5,000 Benefits from steel, and also: Logo printed on conference t-shirts / Logo impreso en las camisetas Logo printed on conference bag / Logo impreso en las bolsas SILVER - $5,000 to $15,000 Benefits from bronze, and also: Logo on banner in conference lobby / Logo en rótulo a la entrada de la conferencia GOLD - $15,000 to $30,000 Benefits from silver, and also: Logo printed larger and in superior position / Logo de tamaño y colocación especia Logo in video streams and recordings / Logo en las transmisiones de vídeo. Logo on banner behind talk podiums PLATINUM - $30,000 or more Name and description of sponsor in all press releases relating to the conference / Nombre y descripción en todos los communicados de prensa relacionados con la conferencia Logo printed on all material related to the conference / Logo en todo el material relacionado con la conferencia 45 minute slot for giving a free software related talk / Espacio de 45 minutos para dar una charla relacionada con el software libre As discussed in the meeting, this makes the first three levels' thresholds a little lower than last year (by changing euro to dollar signs and keeping the numbers), and adjusts the thresholds for gold/platinum. Compared to http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml this removes 'logo on bag' from Steel, and swaps the ordering of 'logo on banner' and 'logo in video streams and recordings', and adds the new 'mention in press releases' for Platinum. Those seem like reasonable changes to me (assuming the press team agree to the latter). We already missed the deadline agreed in the meeting for this, so please send any comments quickly now, rather than waiting to send detailed ones later! Thanks, -- Moray ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] DC11 sponsorship levels
It's a small point, but clearly if I paid $30k I get to choose my level? I think these levels should primarily have a published level, like: Steel: $2000 Bronze: $5000 Silver: $15000 Gold: $3 Platinum: $5 or maybe those last three are $10k, $25k, $40k or $10k, $20k, $35k Then the ranges that are listed are the 'negotiating room' which is available. We can recognise that a poorer company (or a local one) who is being a good citizen by sponsoring DebConf can get a Bronze sponsorship for $3000 (e.g), etc. Cheers, Andrew. On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 00:03 +, Moray Allan wrote: It appears that we still didn't manage to agree sponsorship levels for DebConf12, so here's something concrete we could approve if it looks fine to everyone, or modify if people have better ideas. I would especially like comments (soon!) from anyone who worked on the sponsorship team for a previous DebConf. Here's what I think is currently proposed, based on modifying http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12/SponsorPack to take into account the discussion in the last meeting. STEEL - $1,000 to $2,000 Logo on our website / Logo en las páginas web. Logo included in full-page thank you ad in Linux Magazine worldwide / Logo en una página de agradecimientos de la revista Linux Magazine BRONZE - $2,000 to $5,000 Benefits from steel, and also: Logo printed on conference t-shirts / Logo impreso en las camisetas Logo printed on conference bag / Logo impreso en las bolsas SILVER - $5,000 to $15,000 Benefits from bronze, and also: Logo on banner in conference lobby / Logo en rótulo a la entrada de la conferencia GOLD - $15,000 to $30,000 Benefits from silver, and also: Logo printed larger and in superior position / Logo de tamaño y colocación especia Logo in video streams and recordings / Logo en las transmisiones de vídeo. Logo on banner behind talk podiums PLATINUM - $30,000 or more Name and description of sponsor in all press releases relating to the conference / Nombre y descripción en todos los communicados de prensa relacionados con la conferencia Logo printed on all material related to the conference / Logo en todo el material relacionado con la conferencia 45 minute slot for giving a free software related talk / Espacio de 45 minutos para dar una charla relacionada con el software libre As discussed in the meeting, this makes the first three levels' thresholds a little lower than last year (by changing euro to dollar signs and keeping the numbers), and adjusts the thresholds for gold/platinum. Compared to http://debconf11.debconf.org/sponsorship.xhtml this removes 'logo on bag' from Steel, and swaps the ordering of 'logo on banner' and 'logo in video streams and recordings', and adds the new 'mention in press releases' for Platinum. Those seem like reasonable changes to me (assuming the press team agree to the latter). We already missed the deadline agreed in the meeting for this, so please send any comments quickly now, rather than waiting to send detailed ones later! Thanks, -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
