Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC sponsor brochure: GNOME.Asia pack

[William from Texas <williamfromtexas gmail com>]

The versions never end! I should have made the increments smaller..

Sponsor Brochure draft7
- Cleaned up wording, mentioned hackfests, and sponsors helping GNOME
not just GUADEC
- p6 I think you'll find Package Tables better
- p7 changed .Asia currency to HK$ and also changed 4 weeks for
materials to 1 week in advance.
- p8 Moved some things around on the App Form to make it more clear

http://upload.williamfromtexas.com/download/GUADEC_Sponsor_Brochure_draft7.pdf


On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:17 AM, William from Texas
<williamfromtexas gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com> wrote:
>> Overall this looks great.  However, I do find a couple of things a bit
>> confusing.  The term "GNOME.Asia pack" only appears once in the
>> brochure and it isn't clear to mean what it means.
>
> Will address this below.
>
>> The website provides very little information about GNOME.Asia.  Don't
>> you think we should minimally say where and when it will be and a
>> URL and contact for more information?  A sentence or two about
>> the fact that GNOME.Asia is cool would be good.  We could highlight
>> that it is pushing GNOME and GNOME into new markets, and this year into
>> tech savvy Hong Kong.   The growing Asian market is probably
>> particularly interesting to many potential sponsors.
>
> We can do this, but where on the site? For the moment I will add links
> into the brochure.
>
>> It seems a bit weird that the text explains that people can sponsor
>> GNOME.Asia by itself if they want, but the "Sponsorship Application
>> Form" does not provide any checkboxes for this option, nor does the
>> text tell you what to do or who to contact.
>
> I don't think the possibility to only sponsor GNOME.Asia should be on
> the GUADEC sponsor sheet. We can provide links for this.
>
>> My first impression was that the brochure was telling me that if I
>> paid $12,000 for the "Platinum" GNOME.Asia sponsorship (which I
>> thought meant GNOME.Asia package) that I could pay 5,000 euro more to
>> get Platinum GUADEC sponsorship.  But this does not sound like what
>> you describe below.
>>
>>
>> On 03/19/12 01:45 PM, William from Texas wrote:
>>>
>>> After some feedback from GUADEC and .Asia teams, here is the GUADEC
>>> sponsor brochure draft5:
>>>
>>> http://upload.williamfromtexas.com/download/GUADEC_Sponsor_Brochure_draft5.pdf
>>>
>>> The 'Big Change' here are the .Asia value packs on p6 and p8. GUADEC
>>> sponsors can add +5,000eu to gain .Asia Platinum or Gold-level,
>>> +3,000eu to for Silver and +1,500eu for Bronze. (There was a
>>> suggestion for +6k for Platinum and +4.5 for Gold, do others insist on
>>> this? It can be added if so, mostly removed for space reasons.)
>>
>>
>> Why is there no foot in some of the GNOME.Asia rows?  Why do you not
>> become a "Coffee break" sponsor at any sponsorship level?  How much
>> do people have to spend to be this kind of sponsor?
>
> Addressing above and here: maybe I will make GNOME.Asia value pack its
> own table structure to emphasize it and provide better details. Right
> now it's in with the Extras.
>
> There are no GNOME feet in the extra section as these are available
> but not automatic. e.g., Any sponsor may cover a coffee break, but
> it's not included in any package, it should be discussed as an extra
> cost. Platinum sponsors are automatically included as sponsors of a
> conference reception (is this the Pro event?) and Gold sponsors are
> automatically sponsors of a party. A Bronze sponsor may also choose to
> sponsor a reception or party as an extra cost of their package. An
> unclarity in my mind is the text 'at own cost' for these, implying
> that all Platinum/Gold sponsors still need to pay extra for these
> extras, although they have first right to claim these extras.. Since
> this particular text was from previous GUADECs, is that how we've done
> it in the past?
>
>> It also is a bit awkward that GNOME.Asia is in USD ($) while GUADEC is
>> in Euro.  Not sure this is relaly a problem, but it does seem odd.
>> Maybe it would be better to show the numbers in both currencies.
>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Brian