(CCing [email protected], but please don't expect anyone to do that in future -- discussion should move to the main debconf-team list now that you won the bid. We should probably also create a [email protected] for more detailed discussions on venue points etc.)
Hi, As has been discussed a little already, it would be sensible to get a DebConf13 sponsorship brochure ready soon. We will need to raise a lot more money for DebConf13 than sponsorship brought in for the last DebConfs. A couple of points in relation to that: * It does _not_ seem sensible to contact regular DebConf sponsors about DebConf13 until they have already arranged sponsorship for DebConf12. We still need to raise a lot of money for DebConf12, and we don't want to risk them deciding to just sponsor DebConf13 instead. * However, we should aim to ask for DebConf13 sponsorship from those regular sponsors around the time that DebConf12 happens, rather than waiting until the start of next year. They won't all be ready to agree at that time, and we will probably need to repeat the queries a few times, but for many sponsors asking at the start of the calendar year is too late, and sponsorship budgets are allocated about a year in advance. * A clearer target for now is very local sponsors, including ones not directly related to free software, who will sponsor because the event is in Switzerland, but wouldn't sponsor any event in Nicaragua. * Although it's likely to be Swiss local-team people who are focused on this for now, any approaching of sponsors should be done within the sponsorship team, and the usual central sponsorship team records should be kept up-to-date. More generally, the DebConf13 local team should be embedding itself within the current DebConf teams, so that nothing comes as a surprise to you next year (and of course, so that you can share your wisdom this year too). While I realise that we don't need to teach the Swiss about organisation, this is something that we ask of every local team. :) -- Moray _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
