Hmm, I guess maybe I was wrong. Anyways, Sokol should just buy it back for next to nothing and take the money and run. They obviously had the wearwithall to do it well.
I am sure a grassroots "Astricon" (if Digium doesn't claim infringment) would work too. Thanks, Steve Totaro On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Moshe Maeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you go to the Astricon web site and look at the links, you will see that > the show is produced by Pulvermedia. > > Digium bought Sokol who previously produced Astricon, but Digium is not a > show producer so they made some kind of deal with Pulvermedia to produce the > show. Producing a show is not simple and is rather expensive. You would > probably be surprised to know how much a show like this costs to produce. > The costs from first hand knowledge are more than the $150k that someone > calculated above as potential income. > Not only that many of the participants get free passes, for numerous > reasons. > > A big chunk of income are the sponsorships, which is one of the reasons to > bring in a professional producer, they bring in the > big sponsors. > > In any case I would assume that if Pulvermedia does go under (which I hope > not) Digium will find another company to partner with, > though that may not save this years show. > > Just my 2 cents... > Moshe > > > > > Steve Totaro wrote: > I could be wrong, but Pulvermedia has NOTHING to do with Astricon. > Digium > runs the show. > > Thanks, > Steve Totaro > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Moshe > Maeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought Digium owns Astricon and Pulvermedia just produces the show? > > > Jay > R. Ashworth wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:50:59AM -0400, Steve Totaro > wrote: > > Who cares what is going on? Von was a niche in th late 90s > early > 2000's, > that niche is gone to mainstream tech. > > Um, Pulver Media owns > Astricon, now, no? > > I suspect we all might have an > interest... > > Cheers, > -- > jra > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and > Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing > list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation > Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To > UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
