Hey, On last meeting we had on December 7th (http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Meetings) one of the points we covered was Sponsorship, to be more exact making sponsorship brochures for DebConf 11, since AFAIK there's no much use of the ones that were used for DebConf10.
Velimir and I have agreed to get this part done, but we also expressed that we would need some guidance. To get this guidance, we would need to ping certain people that have experience with sponsorships. Instead of pinging certain people individually, I would like to to make this *official* "ping" for everybody that could help us with this to please report to actually help us with this. We still haven't started working on this task because we need some major questions answered. Around New Years for a week or so I'll be spending in Vienna, I was originally planning for two of us to complete this task while I'm there, but is this timing too late? Now I see that some companies are having meetings who are they going to sponsor for next years events. I'm particularly talking about Canonical that's having this kind of meeting today, are we going to be late to have Canonical as sponsor? Are we in position to lose some other potential sponsors, because AFAIK companies are making their re-balances and budget calculations for following year around this time right now. i.e: I'm going to Banja Luka on Monday for a meeting with Governmen, besides the "regular" meeting agenda we have, I'll bring a "manually" and "specifically" written sponsorship document for one of the *major* ISP and Telecom (M-Tel) companies in Bosnia. They expressed their wish to sponsor this event, and we can't lose them, just as we shouldn't lose Canonical. So right now we have to "specifically" write these documents for each company. Therefor, let's conclude this "sponsorship brochure" topic once for all. Are you experienced sponsorship team member? Please let us know, we'll do the work, all we need from you is answers to questions we have and potential guidance. I'll try to take care of M-Tel and Canonical so we don't lose them, but let's do this already. Thanks, Adnan _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
