Re: Sponsorship document for GNOME.Asia 2011

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

Pockey:

Overall it looks good.  I made a few minor improvements to the text.

I do wonder why we have the section "GNOME 3 talking points".  This
doesn't seem to be very relevant to sponsors, and is using valuable
real estate at the top of the document where we probably should be
making a stronger appeal to them sponsoring us.

I also think we could highlight a few more things:

- We could say more to thank our past sponsors and make those who
  will see us asking for money again feel more recognized and invited
  to contribute again.
- That sending employees to the event is considered a valuable way
  to sponsor, and is appreciated.
- We should encourage sponsors to consider having an employee speak
  at the event, with perhaps a link to instructions on how to submit
  a paper.
- I think we could send out a message to potential sponsors with an
  interest in GNOME 3 to be involved with us in a more special way.
  Perhaps we could give any Diamond sponsors visibility on the
  upcoming www.gnome3.org website, for example.  Or make them feel
  more involved with GNOME 3 in other more tangible ways.
- Considering that this is the big GNOME 3 launch event, won't there
  be media?  Could we make arrangements with media to highlight
  Platinum and Gold sponsors as a part of the package?
- An invitation to negotiate with us.  Perhaps we could have a
  sliding scale so that local organizations, smaller organizations or
  first-time GNOME sponsors have a smaller free.

  I think, for example, we could perhaps do more to encourage
  organizations that have an interest in doing GNOME consulting
  work have a presence at the event.  Perhaps having a special
  sponsorship package for smaller consulting firms might help to
  attract this sort of new sponsor and more local sponsors.

  I think we might be able to attract more sponsorship money if we
  are more flexible and provide more options.

Brian


On 01/17/11 10:54 PM, Pockey Lam wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After discussion with Bharath and Fred, we will use a wiki page to
> finalize the contents of the call for sponsors, so everybody can
> contribute on the document.
> This Wiki page will mainly show text, we will incorporate some nice
> pictures after the text is finalized (in another format). Everybody can
> access the document at
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/CallForSponsors
>
> Pockey
>
> On 01/18/2011 12:45 AM, Bharath Acharya wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Here's the Draft version of Call for Sponsors. Some things yet to be
> > worked out are:
> > 1) Updating the hackfest venue photos (Festival weekend in India. Should
> > get them in 2 more days)
> > 2) The sponsors logo needs to be worked on. I maintained all the logos
> > in the same rectangular sizes. But some logos are smaller in size and so
> > appear small. Can someone update them?
> > 3) The amounts can still be changed if people feel we should
> > reduce/increase the money.
> >
> > I and Akhil worked on the numbers and we found out that if we have 1
> > Platinum, 2 Gold, 3 Silver, and 4 Bronze Sponsors we still meet our
> > target of 60k USD :D
> >
> > Let us know of any suggestions you have. Also attaching the odt file so
> > that everyone can keep updating the source file. Thanks All.
> >
> > Links
> > [1]
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=CallforSponsors-Draft-2011.odt
> >
> > [2]
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=CallforSponsors-Draft-2011.pdf
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bharath
> >
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