> I'm not sure what you're saying, IMO they should _also pay money_ in addition > to giving us their "free" stuff (which is totally unrelated to Debian / > running DebConf, which makes this different to ie hardware sponsors, which > neither give us money but which we still count as monetary contribution).
We'll lets say, these "casual" sponsors don't have to pay, what might turn out of it? There's our venue, and there's dozens of stands in front of it, where they are promoting their products and giving it out for free. You'll get a "parasite" symptom where all of them will use our conference for them to get promoted for free. Which will also distract people from what's really happening, and that's DebConf. DebConf will not be held without hardware, however it will be held without RedBull or beer, so those two are completely different things. So instead of you having 3 different energy drink companies walking around "spamming" and thus distracting attendees, they should get one of the sponsorship packages if they want to be granted permission to even advertise this product as part of DebConf. Otherwise they'll be prevented from even gathering or making a stand in front of venue or wherever. This is definitely something that should be discussed over. @Dusan, > And there are couple of private universities. I'm sure some are > interesting for "casual" sponsorship. Now this is completely different, there's no way private university can be a "casual" sponsor. They won't walk around offering free scholarships for attendees, they want to pull money from attendees. So these private universities if they don't get one of the sponsorship packages, will NOT be granted access to promote their schools just like that. Not to mention getting their name on tshirts or videos or wherever without getting a proper sponsorship package. @Holger, see this is what I meant by that "parasite" symptom. Adnan On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Holger Levsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adnan, > > On Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2010, Adnan Hodzic wrote: >> But what you said sounds better, they sponsor you while giving out >> free stuff, sounds good :) >> >> They should at least get the Bronze (cheapest one) package... > > I'm not sure what you're saying, IMO they should _also pay money_ in addition > to giving us their "free" stuff (which is totally unrelated to Debian / > running DebConf, which makes this different to ie hardware sponsors, which > neither give us money but which we still count as monetary contribution). > > Do you agree on that? > > > cheers, > Holger > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team > > _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
