Re: Sponsorship document for GNOME.Asia 2011

[Bharath Acharya <abharath gnome org>]

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 02:11 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Pockey:
> 
> Overall it looks good.  I made a few minor improvements to the text.
> 

Hello,

I have tried to incorporate all the suggestions by Brian. Let me
know/modify if it needs further changes.

My changes,
http://live.gnome.org/action/diff/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/CallForSponsors?action=diff&rev1=12&rev2=13

The wiki,
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/CallForSponsors


> I do wonder why we have the section "GNOME 3 talking points".  This
> doesn't seem to be very relevant to sponsors, and is using valuable
> real estate at the top of the document where we probably should be
> making a stronger appeal to them sponsoring us.

I removed all the old text and just added the first few lines from our
new gnome3.org page.

> 
> I also think we could highlight a few more things:
> 
> - We could say more to thank our past sponsors and make those who
>    will see us asking for money again feel more recognized and invited
>    to contribute again.

We already have. We just need better/high res logos in the final
document.

> - That sending employees to the event is considered a valuable way
>    to sponsor, and is appreciated.

Added some lines for this. Let me know if it needs any improvement.

> - We should encourage sponsors to consider having an employee speak
>    at the event, with perhaps a link to instructions on how to submit
>    a paper.
> - I think we could send out a message to potential sponsors with an
>    interest in GNOME 3 to be involved with us in a more special way.
>    Perhaps we could give any Diamond sponsors visibility on the
>    upcoming www.gnome3.org website, for example.  Or make them feel
>    more involved with GNOME 3 in other more tangible ways.
> - Considering that this is the big GNOME 3 launch event, won't there
>    be media?  Could we make arrangements with media to highlight
>    Platinum and Gold sponsors as a part of the package?
> - An invitation to negotiate with us.  Perhaps we could have a
>    sliding scale so that local organizations, smaller organizations or
>    first-time GNOME sponsors have a smaller free.

We have a custom package for this level of sponsorship.

Regards,
Bharath

> 
>    I think, for example, we could perhaps do more to encourage
>    organizations that have an interest in doing GNOME consulting
>    work have a presence at the event.  Perhaps having a special
>    sponsorship package for smaller consulting firms might help to
>    attract this sort of new sponsor and more local sponsors.
> 
>    I think we might be able to attract more sponsorship money if we
>    are more flexible and provide more options.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On 01/17/11 10:54 PM, Pockey Lam wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > After discussion with Bharath and Fred, we will use a wiki page to
> > finalize the contents of the call for sponsors, so everybody can
> > contribute on the document.
> > This Wiki page will mainly show text, we will incorporate some nice
> > pictures after the text is finalized (in another format). Everybody can
> > access the document at
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/CallForSponsors
> >
> > Pockey
> >
> > On 01/18/2011 12:45 AM, Bharath Acharya wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> Here's the Draft version of Call for Sponsors. Some things yet to be
> >> worked out are:
> >> 1) Updating the hackfest venue photos (Festival weekend in India. Should
> >> get them in 2 more days)
> >> 2) The sponsors logo needs to be worked on. I maintained all the logos
> >> in the same rectangular sizes. But some logos are smaller in size and so
> >> appear small. Can someone update them?
> >> 3) The amounts can still be changed if people feel we should
> >> reduce/increase the money.
> >>
> >> I and Akhil worked on the numbers and we found out that if we have 1
> >> Platinum, 2 Gold, 3 Silver, and 4 Bronze Sponsors we still meet our
> >> target of 60k USD :D
> >>
> >> Let us know of any suggestions you have. Also attaching the odt file so
> >> that everyone can keep updating the source file. Thanks All.
> >>
> >> Links
> >> [1]
> >> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=CallforSponsors-Draft-2011.odt
> >>
> >> [2]
> >> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=CallforSponsors-Draft-2011.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Bharath
> >>
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