On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Noufal Ibrahim
<noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
Dhananjay Nene <
dhananjay.nene@gmail.com> writes:
> We received one more confirmed gold sponsorship earlier today from
> Vayana Enterprises. The payment was made earlier today. It is a
> Chennai based company with a dev center in pune. They have 2 python
> based b2b SAAS financial services connecting enterprises and banks.
> Full disclosure: They also are my clients.
So that fills the gold slots.
I'm wondering if it's a good idea to have something like "Associate
sponsors" allows companies to put their banners on the website for a
small amount. Might help the Python startups in the country to network
etc. Thoughts?
I've been thinking about this. While it is unlikely to be an issue, I think decorum should dictate we go back to the sponsors and inform them about our intent to add to the sponsorship tiers. In the meanwhile I suggest the following :
a. Decide on the new additional sponsorship tiers we want to introduce and the corresponding fees / benefits (I am perfectly fine with the associate sponsors with the benefit being a logo on the website). Let us decide if we want to consider any other slots (just thinking out of my hat here as a hypothetical suggestion - but say a Lunch sponsorships for each days). Whatever it is lets freeze that (due to point b. below)
b. Communicate back with the committed sponsors of our intent to expand the sponsorship tiers, and review if there are any comments / objections. While unllkely to be an issue, I do think it would be appropriate to go through this step.
c. Lets keep up the pressure to first finish the existing slots, before announcing an opening of new slots post completion of step b.
Dhananjay
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