Hi; As GNOME Turkey, we want to set up a booth at CEBIT Eurasia, which is the biggest IT fair in Turkey. It will be held at September 5th to 10th. It has up to 160.000 visitors for 5 days. And has media coverage everywhere. However since this fair is mostly commercial you have to pay for setting up booth. I'm not quite sure about other Expos but for this one it's like $190/m2 and minimum 4 m2 area is necessary. This amount is higher than we can cover. Also we might need GNOE We tried to find some sponsors. We contacted with Nokia Turkey. Since they have booth in Cebit (one of the biggest booths there) they might arrange us a place, and we might show 770 on that stand as well. This conversation hasn't finished yet, but they told us, Turkey office do not sponsor events, and we might contact to Europe office or something. What I'm really wondering, (since time is getting closer) can we find some contacts for Nokia to sponsor for getting a booth place in Cebit Eurasia Turkey? Or any other company that can cover expences costs $750~. I'm not quite sure what we can give in return, but putting their logo, and expressing their support to Open Source might get them interested. Can someone guide me in this process? Do you think it's worth setting booth in this Expo? What I know is every IT related people visit that fair in Turkey and I believe it would be a great chance for us to advertise and find supporters for GNOME.
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