On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Moray Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2011/6/21 Leandro Gómez <[email protected]>: > > - Press conference - We had a small press conference with local media > (some > > newspapers, TV stations and independent media). The idea was to have some > > press coverage in order to attract potential local sponsors. > > If any coverage came out of that, you should start collecting it on a > wiki page. And mail the list, if it's nice. :) > > Sure. We'll do that. Unfortunately, some of our local journalists are too sloppy (they don't care to ask or do some research) and most of the articles are identical (a copy+paste of the official DebConf announcent). > > - Local sponsorship - Thanks to the press conference we made some > contacts > > with potential sponsors. We're going to do a follow-up on this after > > DebConf11. We're going to have some help from a local law firm in order > to > > see if we can get a tax exemption for the local business who wants to > > sponsor DebConf12. > > Sounds good. > > > - Meetings with hotels - We had a couple of meetings with the staff from > the > > main hotels and the venue. We made the pre-reservation of the venue and > > they're going to send us a copy of the standard contract they use (we'll > > have this document translated and sent to -team as soon as we have it). > We > > probably have to pay something in January in order to secure the venue. > > [...] > > I've already requested an updated quote from the hotels/venue and will > start > > to negotiate with them based on the new prices we get. I think we'll have > a > > (very) preliminary budget draft for DC12 around August. > > Let us know as you get (improved) prices. These will be major parts > of the costs of DebConf12, so it's worth working hard to reduce them, > and to check other options for venue and hosting -- even if you don't > think the other options would work, you can go back to the first ones > and argue on prices better with that information.... > > All right. I'll take care of it personally. Cheers, > See you soon, > > -- > Moray > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team >
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