Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] Travel sponsorship BoF: minutes

2010-12-29 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Richard Darst r...@zgib.net wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 04:16:08PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: There's a lot of work to be done to flesh out such a plan, obviously.  If there's support for this in principle, I would be willing to put some effort in to help

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Damyan Ivanov d...@debian.org wrote: Was the brochure ready that early before? SVN logs suggests that DC10 brochure started being prepared in January, with corrections up to May. DC9 seems to be done in March. So I think your timing is very good compared to

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Brian Gupta brian.gu...@brandorr.com wrote: Looking at it from a sponsor's point of view, raising the donation threshold would raise questions, where lowering it really won't, but might raise questions later if we decide we need to raise them again. I also

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Vedran Omeragic ved...@vedranomeragic.com wrote: Hi, just a friendly reminder, first version of the brochure is ready. Basically we just added a template and copied most of the text from the previous years brochure, so as far as design is concern, that's about

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Damyan Ivanov d...@debian.org wrote: Two things need to be decided:  1) sponsorship levels (thresholds) and whether to provide a different    set for local sponsors  2) possible rearrangement of benefits suggested by Holger What would be the preferred way to

Re: [Debconf-team] ToDo list, final decisions, travel issues, budget and sponsors

2010-12-29 Thread Vedran Omeragic
Hi, thank you for informing us. Now that you scared the bejesus out of me, I think I'll just keep with the local team business. As for the rest of ToDo list, once again, anyone willing to help is most welcome. http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/ToDo Best regards Vedran On 12/29/2010 10:45

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Sponsorship plans and prices

2010-12-29 Thread Pablo Duboue
I finally understood the proposed new benefits from the draft brochure. So we're changing logos in t-shirt to logos in bag for bronze... I can see the logos in the t-shirt are more valuable than the logos in the attendee bags, but dropping logos in t-shirt for bronze seems very harsh, as I feel

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Velimir Iveljic
Hi, We (local/core team) agreed earlier this evening that it would be a better idea to lower the sponsorship packages to equal the ones of DC9. This was because we asked around and ppl told us that the NYC sponsors team had problems finding sponsors because the sponsor packages were to high!

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Velimir Iveljic
I don't think this will be necessary, as we agreed to not have 2 types of sponsorship (meaning local and global). One sponsorship type should be enough. Velimir On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Pablo Duboue pablo.dub...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Damyan Ivanov

Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Velimir Iveljic velimir.li...@foolcontrol.org wrote: Hi, We (local/core team) agreed earlier this evening that it would be a better idea to lower the sponsorship packages to equal the ones of DC9. Sounds great. Keep the good work! P.

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Velimir Iveljic, Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:40:33PM +0100 |=- I don't think this will be necessary, as we agreed to not have 2 types of sponsorship (meaning local and global). One sponsorship type should be enough. Okay. Still, the thresholds and the rearrangement proposed by Holger are

Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf11-localteam] Sponsorship brochure for DebConf11 - help?

2010-12-29 Thread Velimir Iveljic
We most certainly can, and looking at this whole conversation here, SHOULD hold a meeting regarding all of this. I would also like to mention that, the reduction of the sponsorship packages wasn't ONLY because of the local sponsors not being able to reach higher sponsor levels, but MOSTLY because

[Debconf-team] Official announcement of Belo Horizonte BID for DebConf12

2010-12-29 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
We are proud to announce the DebConf12 bid for Belo Horizonte, Brazil. We believe our city is capable of holding such event. It is an important city of Brazil and it will be hosting some of the games for 2014 world cup. There are several IT related based in Belo Horizonte, such as Google and IBM,