Hello everybody! I'll see if I can chip in some help after being MIA for dc11 (having a legal residence in 3 different countries in the same year was a little too much ;-)
Just read the brochure. The last sections need work: "Importancia de DebConf para Nicaragua" makes too strong claims about how dc10 changed Debian perception in NY/CU and about how there was a noticeable increase of adoption in Debian in NYC after dc10. "Efectos a largo plazo de la DebConf12" includes the following sentence "Esto no está basado en nuestras creencias, sino en datos estadísticos generados después de las Conferencias Debian realizadas anteriormente en otros países." which translates "this [the impact of DebConf in the local place] is not based on our beliefs but in statistical data generated after past DebConfs at other countries" (quick translate, but you get the idea). When I worked on the dc10 brochure there were no such statistical data available and I really doubt we have strong numbers, as collecting them is expensive and wouldn't serve any real purpose beyond making our sponsors happy (we make them happy by other means, for example giving them Debian :-). Even if this version of the brochure is in Spanish so it might feel "local", we can't put the name of Debian and DebConf behind things we can't back up a 100%. Accuracy is very important in communicating with potential sponsors and making a bad impression on one sponsor can reflect bad on the conference for the years to come. Minor issues: The claims about the tourist impact seem inflated. Many of our attendees operate in a shoestring budget and are completely sponsored. Others are better off and spend a month visiting the host country. Better wording will help here. The last sections look like a wall of text and don't fit with the overall tone of the previous parts. I know Spanish prose is more in the lines of the last sections so the dc12 team might want to rearrange the whole thing so it flows well for the Spanish speaking crowd. Still, if you're going to go for local companies they will want a shorter brochure. For the dc10 brochure I got two of our past sponsors on the record with quotations about the value they received by sponsors dc9. You might want to fish that back from the dc10 brochure. I think that's one of the best bits, there might be more stuff. Starting with the dc9 brochure sounds rather old ;-) Last question: the last sections seems strongly geared towards government support. Is that the case? Cheers! P. PS: si mi ingles esta confuso, escribanme fuera de la lista, en español. En IRC soy DrDub. Un gran saludo y felicitaciones al equipo local! _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
