Hi Dave, > I've been pitching this as "we need $20,000 to guarantee the > minimum, or we can't run the conference".
I don't think that's a very attractive position for a potential sponsor. They want to be associated with success, not potential failure. How about this for a pitch? "This is the world's most important event for graphics software on the fastest growing desktop platform." Please mail me offlist if you would like some ideas/contacts to try. Also, a very easy kind of individual sponsorship is for attendees to get a magazine/newspaper commission to write about the event. This has the double benefit of improving post-event publicity. You also need involvement from the local and national Polish/central European IT media, as soon as possible (due to monthly magazine print schedules) e.g. http://www.linux-magazine.pl/ which is owned by the German company Linux New Media AG. Cheers! Daniel _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
