On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 11:18 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > I certainly agree that we need to consider the financial risk of a > conference, but GUADEC is cheap, and could even be cheaper. Why cheaper? I'm not talking about the extravaganza, but with the growing user base of GNOME, GUADEC should be more expensive every year, meaning we should spend more. Including marketing and extending opportunities. From what I have seen we have more sponsors than previous years. We should have more sponsors next year, with increasing credentials for sponsors. (More financial burden to them). My honest opinion about this is marketing team with GUADEC committee every year should work very close and actively to make sponsors more involved in GUADEC for spreading the word through their channels, and for the sake of their advertisement. This year till now, it was a great job. But it would be even better, for example, say, NOKIA would choose to exhibit new Google Talk integrated version of N770 at this event, and attract some press coverage for GUADEC. Well, you know Google with Nokia, what does tech journalists would like to make news for. Of course these kind of things should not take over the whole spirit and the aim of the conference. It might be better to prioritize GUADEC budget spending for that matter. Is it better to spend money for bringing more people to GUADEC (IMO this should be where money should be spend more), or to marketing of GUADEC (and that should be the second important part of it)? Or even GUADEC should serve most delicious food to it's attendees. (that's not a bad idea either. :) Once this issue is clarified then it would be possible to decide if it could be cheaper or expensive than before. > > Cheers, > Dave. >
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