Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07
- From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>
- To: Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>
- Cc: Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org>, Paul Cooper <pgc openadvantage org>, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org>, foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:52:45 -0400
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:05 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:55 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> >> I'd *love* to get to the stage where we could outsource the conference, but the
> >> last time we did that and outsourced an expo day, it was a bit of a disaster.
> >> Financially we're probably not in the position to do this either if people are
> >> expecting the conference to be free.
> >
> > But with the greater funding opportunity that is expected to come with
> > joining forces, we may be able to hire two contributors to work on it
> > fulltime for a few months. Definitely possible in the less expensive
> > European countries which are more likely to host GUADEC in the coming
> > years, given that we've only had Western Europe countries so far.
>
> Why is it likely that we'd get more funding? With joining forces, you join
> sponsorship opportunities and join numbers attending.
There was a promise that companies have an easier time allocating a
larger lump of money for one super conference than for two smaller,
less-known-in-the-marketing-world conferences. Think OLS for example,
but for the desktop. Needless to say, it remains to be checked in
reality.
behdad
> Unless there's some magical way of tapping into new sponsorship that I'm
> missing, you still pretty much end up with the same result - not counting those
> companies that used to sponsor each event, now sponsoring potentially less
> overall on a single event.
>
>
> Glynn
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