Re: Estimated sponsorship for GUADEC 2019?

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 2 August 2018 at 10:15, Ismael Olea <ismael olea org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova via
> guadec-organization <guadec-organization gnome org> wrote:
> > Please give me your realistic best case, expected and worst case
> > numbers in the next couple of days. My request is now urgent because
> > the bid deadline is on the 6th of August.
>
>
> AFAIK about 2017 and with 2018 in mind I dare to propose, in my opinion
> conservative expectations, of 20K € worst case and a probably 24-25K €
> optimal budget.
>
> Sponsorship campaigns seems to me to get better each year so  I'll bet there
> could be a profit margin for any potential emergency and, most probably, a
> nice surplus.

I think the estimate needs to come from the sponsorship committee as
they are the people who have a feel for how our sponsors are doing and
the people who will be chasing down those sponsors.