On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Sayan Chowdhury < sayan.chowdhury2012@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
As the discussion for the venue is in progress. Let's kick off the discussion of the sponsorship.
During the F2F discussion in last meeting, this is the sponsorship slab:
- We would continue to have Platinum, Gold, Silver and Associate. - We plan to introduce two new slabs this year, Diamond and Kids sponsor.
Here is the slab that was discussed during the meeting 1. Diamond - 10L 2. Platinum - 7L 3. Gold - 5L 4. Silver 3L 5. Kids - 2.5L 6. Associate - 1L
- The Diamond sponsor would have a bunch of more facilitates, a sponsored talk which would get more attention, maybe in the main hall(but we need to discuss on this on more).
- Kids Workshop sponsorship would be good to have in-kind but I don't think we should be restricted to that. But this sponsorship would drive the Kids Workshop and the hardware and other stuffs needed for driving the event.
Comment with your thoughts on this sponsorship slabs or add points into the sponsorship slab/brochure.
The sponsorship prospectus says that the diamond sponsor gets a keynote. Has something changed after this discussion? IMHO, having sponsored keynotes makes the conference feels more like a business conference than a community conference.
From the beginning of PyCon India, we have takes a strong position that we'll not sell space on t-shirt and slot for talks. Sad to see that this community space is getting diluted.
Anand