On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:55:26PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > I honestly think it's a big mistake not to go with sponsorship levels, as was > "decided" (*) in the sponsorship team meeting: > > 1. I believe, that we get more money from sponsors, if they have an incentive > to spend more money to reach higher levels. Currently it doesnt really matter > how much money they give. Organizers of other free-software conferences > supported me in this view. > > 2. We need to rate non-money sponsors (bandwidth, hardware, etc) anyway, to > sort the sponsors by donation on the webpage. Which we already do. > > 3. If we have "upper-class" (the 5-7 big ones) sponsors , those are likely to > be mentioned in press articles. (We can better influence, that our top > sponsors are mentioned, because thats those from the two highest levels of > sponsorship.) If we dont have "upper-class" sponsors, the press might choose > some, which is not really fair to the sponsors who give much money. And as we > will have >20 sponsors, no article will mention them all. > > 4. If we dont have sponsor classes, my (poorly doing) freelancing business is > thinking of sponsoring debconf too, to get on the t-shirt. I think it's > riduculous to get on the t-shirt for any sum. > > 5. So we have (or need) levels already, but we dont have clear > boundaries/rules. baaad. Clear rules are much better. > > 6. I completly fail to see what not using levels achieves for us and our > sponsors. OTOH, I can see that also sponsors are happy if they see their > contribution visible according to their level of contribution. > > > Suggested levels: > > label-scheme1 label-scheme2 amount > critical gold-sponsor >50000 euro > serious silver-sponsor >25000 euro > important bronce-sponsor >10000 euro > normal sponsor > 2000 euro > minor supporter < 2000 euro > > I wouldn't put sponsors below 750 euro on the t-shirt. > > (And maybe >30000 _GBP_, >15000GBP, >7500GBP, >2500GBP, >1000GBP are better > boundaries (for dc7). And 500 GBP minimum to get on the t-shirt.) > > And I don't think it's too late to come up with levels now. IMHO we can do > this til the end of february without looking silly, maybe even later. > > I intentionally posted this to -team and not to -sponsors, to make more > people > aware, that we really need more income. Wanna help (contacting more sponsors)? > > As we have very little sponsorship money at the moment, I'm also thinking of > not sponsoring any europeans travelcosts. (And for next year, we should have > more categories, not only "I need travel or food+accom sponsorship" but > also "I _want_...") >
As I already said in IRC (and i think in a previous mail), i like the idea of the levels. With this system, *ALL* the sponsors are taken into consideration, the difference is we highlight sponsors who are contributing more. Ana _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
