On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been upset with the sponsorship slabs of pycon India for a while. The sponsorship slabs are too expensive for startups. Can you name a local python shop that sponsored pycon India except pipal academy and zeomega in last 2 years? Hacker Earth was the only other one 3 years ago.
I believe the role of sponsorship is more than fund raising. It is a great way to connect python companies with the community. In the best interest of python community, we should try to maximize the number of companies that get connected in addition to making sure we raise enough sponsorship to meet e expenses.
In the initial years of PyCon India, almost all sponsorships came from small local companies, mostly because they wanted to be part of the community. I dont see these kind of companies any more at pycon India.
Not sure if anyone noticed, the lowest sponsorship option for pycon India (as proposed in this thread) is more expensive than that of US Pycon.
I think it is time revisit our sponsorship priorities. What does it take to get 50 companies to sponsor pycon India and connect them with the python community?
Apologies on my end to miss that, We will continue to have that startup slab for small companies (who have less than 10 employees) to pay 50% to join as an Associate Sponsor. -- Sayan Chowdhury <https://sayanchowdhury.dgplug.org/> Senior Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering - Emerging Platform GPG Fingerprint : 0F16 E841 E517 225C 7D13 AB3C B023 9931 9CD0 5C8B Proud to work at The Open Organization!