This is a side issue and not central to the main thing which is planning the budget. So, let's stop this here. On Sat, Jan 15 2011, Ramdas S wrote: [...]
I'd suggest not spend much money on promotion and instead do these two activities
For an event with some FOSS touch best would be barter...
I think some of the leading IT magazines will be interested in being a media partner, which means you dont pay for advertisements. They will get a logo. It may not be much, but this is what everyone basically does these days. The magazine guys can be provided a table and chair to display their magazines.
That's possible. I was just scraping my brain for things that might cost money.
Also if someone can take pains contact naukri.com and other job sites, and ask them to send an e-mail inviting just about everyone who has shown Python as a skillset, there were some 12k odd resumes if I remember right. We can give the job site a logo on the site, banner T Shirt etc. If they can do multiple mails as a co-sponsor, it would really add value...
Are you serious about this? The quality of people on Naukri is, in my experience, very poor and not the kind of crowd I want to spend time attracting to what I think (or want to think) is a "hacker" event. I don't want to do a "if you have a resume on Naukri, don't come" but I certainly wouldn't want channel publicity through Naukri. Their audience is just not the kind of people that'd make for a good conference. I'd much prefer that the event gets posted on /. or HN and the crowd there becomes aware of it rather than on Naukri, monster etc.
Trust me this would give us a very good coverage, more than any advertisement in any daily newspaper...
Perhaps but more important than quantity of coverage is the audience we reach out to. The Naukri idea gets a -1 from me personally. [...] --