Hi! While reviewing possible argentinian sponsors, I realized that what we give back to sponsors is too little. So I came up with an idea (that then turned out not to be that original):
We could print a short magazine, that includes interesting info about the conf, about Mar del Plata, about Argentina, DebConf schedule, talks abstracts, etc. And in this magazine include ads from the sponsors. The size and amount of the adds would depend on how much the sponsor gave us, but we would still give a nice space to those that didn't give that much. This way we could allow those sponsors that aren't recognized just by their logos to show who they are and why people should make business with them. I think that if well advertised this would lead to more and happier sponsors (at least for the local sponsors). This could be done with the proceedings, instead of a magazine. I personally don't like the proceedings too much, because not many people read them, and they tend to be a waste of paper, but the result would be the same. Another thing we could give sponsors is encourage them to have a stand at the DebianDay place, again, this is particularly useful for local sponsors, since DebianDay attendees are mainly local people. So, what does everybody think? Would this be ok? I think it would really make a difference regarding local sponsors, I'm not sure about international ones, but it wouldn't hurt them anyway. PS: Spanish version of this mail: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20071017.233921.331e04f8.en.html -- Besos, Marga _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
