Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2011-01-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:52:32PM +, Moray Allan wrote: > As I understand it, the original reason for not having the sponsor > pack publicly linked was different: it was thought useful to be able > to know who had requested copies, and therefore who to keep in contact > with about sponsorship.

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-12-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 31. Dezember 2010, Moray Allan wrote: > As I understand it, the original reason for not having the sponsor > pack publicly linked was different: it was thought useful to be able > to know who had requested copies, and therefore who to keep in contact > with about sponsorship. to k

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-12-31 Thread Moray Allan
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > I concur with this. Debian is an open and transparent project and so is > DebConf. (And while there are a few exceptions, financial flows are not among > them.) As I understand it, the original reason for not having the sponsor pack publicly

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-12-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2010, Pablo Duboue wrote: > For DC10 we tried different variations (adding / removing a page) for > different potential sponsors. That's why it wasn't linked and by now I > believe it wasn't a very good idea, so just having one might be the > way to go. I concur with

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-12-29 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > I think the idea was that we should be able to follow up by knowing > who all had a copy.  However, that was Pablo's and the sponsorship > team's domain, so all of those people can let you know what they have > learned over the years. For DC

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-10-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 06:17:48AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > I'd just like to remind everyone reading this that fundraising isn't > just dumped on "DebConf 11 people" - anyone can help here. Zack, would > you like to join the DebConf fundraising team? I've been floating around #debconf-sponsor

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-10-10 Thread Velimir Iveljic
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Thanks a lot! I'll pass over the brochure, specifying that it's the old > one, but that it can give an idea of the thresholds. In the meantime, it > would be nice if the DebConf11 people can start thinking at who'll be > the main cont

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-10-10 Thread Richard Darst
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:41:48AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Thanks a lot! I'll pass over the brochure, specifying that it's the old > one, but that it can give an idea of the thresholds. In the meantime, it > would be nice if the DebConf11 people can start thinking at who'll be > the mai

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-10-10 Thread Richard Darst
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Heya, > having attended some kind of "corporate" FOSS events as of lately, > I've already got asked by a handful of big companies information about > DebConf11 sponsoring. I understand it's early wrt the conference dates, > bu

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-10-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 01:58:07PM -0400, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > SPI can handle US sponsors but for sponsors outside of the US it makes > more sense to direct sponsorship funds to ffis. ACK. > > Also, can you please point me (once more!) to the sponsorship brochure > > of last year? Any re

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-10-09 Thread Valessio Brito
I create a proposal banners "Support Debian Conference 2011, Be a Sponsor!", see: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/Artwork suggestion, link banner to brochure or a page with updated information on how to sponsor the next debconf11. proposal: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/NewSponsor .Vales

Re: [Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-10-09 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Heya, > having attended some kind of "corporate" FOSS events as of lately, > I've already got asked by a handful of big companies information about > DebConf11 sponsoring. I understand it's early wrt the conference dates, > but I'd rather think that "it's never to ear

[Debconf-team] preliminary sponsorship information for debconf11 sought

2010-10-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Heya, having attended some kind of "corporate" FOSS events as of lately, I've already got asked by a handful of big companies information about DebConf11 sponsoring. I understand it's early wrt the conference dates, but I'd rather think that "it's never to early" to secure DebConf sponsoring. S