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?

Anand

On Nov 26, 2017 12:09 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.

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