Hi Ivet, all, Thanks for starting this thread. While my work organisation, ShapeBlue, has been participating and sponsoring the CCC every year, I think it's important for all organisations who use CloudStack and benefit from CloudStack to make such conferences and events sustainable and funding and sponsoring is an obvious way to do that.
Having CCC not only allow all of us to meet in person, attend talks, learn and collaborate with each other, this also serves as a constant heartbeat for the community and a platform to discuss, build consensus and drive the future of the project and for anybody considering or using CloudStack to network, discover and learn about the project and its community. Regards. Regards. ________________________________ From: Ivet Petrova <ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:53:56 PM To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org <us...@cloudstack.apache.org> Cc: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>; Apache CloudStack Marketing <market...@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: CCC2024 Funding - Important As a follow up - as the attachment is no visible, sponsorship packages can be seen here: https://www.cloudstackcollab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sponsorship-Prospectus-CCC24-web.pdf Best regards, On 9 Jul 2024, at 10:09, Ivet Petrova <ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com> wrote: Hello all, I would like to bring in a serious topic for the yearly CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2024. I would like to remind everyone, that the event is organised by a group of volunteers and we rely entirely on sponsorship from the community, so that we can organise the event. Organising such event is a costly thing - we need to pay for venue, for video recording, catering, ad materials, promoting the event. On a daily basis, I get a lot of questions for free tickets and people really excited to join the event. On the other hand, we have just a few inquiries for sponsorship. Finding more sponsors is something really vital, so that we can have the event. For this reason, I would ask for some community help - could you all evangelise for the event internally in your companies and help me find more sponsors? I am attaching here the event sponsorship prospectus. I do not want to sound too harsh, but we need funding in order to have an event. Otherwise, it will not be possible. Best regards,
