GUADEC and GNOME.Asia Coordinated Call for Sponsors

[Haggen So <haggenso gmail com>]

Hi GUADEC & GNOME.Asia organizers,

On 9 March 2012 14:21, Haggen So <haggenso gmail com> wrote:
> On 27 February 2012 22:32, Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com> wrote:
>
>
>    GUADEC & Gnome.Asia organizers:
>
>    Check out the planned 2012 GUADEC brochure[1] and the 2012 GNOME.Asia
>    brochure will be based on the 2011 one[2].  I notice the following:
>
>    + Does it make sense that the "Terms and Conditions" are so different?
>
>
> Nope, I agree, the section should be made largely the same.

I am Haggen So, the team leader for GNOME.Asia 2012 from Hong Kong. We
had an IRC meeting on Tuesday 6 Mar and found that we need to
coordinate more than the Sponsor Brochures. An idea was to ask Karen
to contact sponsor on behalf of both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia for a total
amount of funding. Then the money would be split by a certain ratio,
which was initially proposed as 2/3 for GUADEC and 1/3 for GNOME.Asia.

We would like to hear from you any opinion on the matter and how we
should proceed. An IRC meeting can be organised if needed.

Haggen
>
>
>    + GnomeAsia last year had sponsorship fees of:
>     Platinum: $12,000, Gold, $9,000, Silver, $5,500, Bronze $2,800
>
>     GUADEC in 2012 plans sponsorship fees of:
>     Platinum: $25,000, Gold: $15,000, Silver $10,000, Bronze: $5,000,
>               Supporter: $1,000.
>
>     I wonder if GNOME.Asia should have a "Supporter".
>
>     Does this seem reasonable to people?  So I guess an adboard member
>     who wanted to be Platinum sponsors for both events would need to
>     donate $67,000 (AdBoard fee is $20,000).  I wonder if that might
>     be a bit high to expect adboard members to pay.  Should we have some
>     some sort of deal to encourage sponsors to cover both events?
>
>
> An economically thoughtful idea which is definitely going attract more
> sponsors and hence better reach. My + for the growth chain.
>
>
>
>    + I note that the cover page on both brochures has an outline of the
>     hosting city.  The buildings on last year's GNOME.Asia front page are
>     buildings from India.  So we probably need to make sure we update the
>     graphic to add the Hong Kong skyline.
>
>
> This is something which is definitely not going to go unnoticed! We
> should also get some nice promotional clips from Haggen too in the
> meeting today.
>
>
>
>    + In general, we probably should plan to make the GNOME.Asia brochure a
>     bit more similar to the graphic layout of the GUADEC brochure.  For
>     example, perhaps the graphic for explaining the sponsorship packages
>     should be used.
>
>    I wonder if it might be good to combine the GUADEC and GNOME.Asia
>    brochures into the single Bi-Annual report.
>
>
> Truly. This would be a healthy way to provide more directed impetuous
> to GNOME in Asia. It's just the 5th year for the event and it has way
> much to learn from GUADEC.
> In general, Asia undoubtedly is a larger and more diversified
> continent and making roots here it would require more efforts, time
> and supervision in the beginning but a little love now, would result
> in extracting a stronger support for GNOME from tonnes of new
> businesses mushrooming all over the continent. If sponsoring GUADEC
> provides an organization, visibility of around 500 guests, sponsoring
> GUADEC would get them visibility no less than three times of it. More
> awareness among individuals would mean, GNOME community becoming more
> international and hence stronger with high-spirited representatives of
> culturally varied societies but having the same aptitude and
> inclination.
>
>
>
>
>    Thoughts?
>
>    Brian
>
>    ---
>
>    [1]
>    http://upload.williamfromtexas.com/download/Sponsor_Brochure_draft2.pdf
>    [2]
>    Planned 2012 GNOME.Asia brochure will be based on the 2011 one:
>    https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit?action="";>AttachFile&do=get&target=GNOME.Asia2011_CallforSponsors.pdf
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