I agree. I think having a 25k or 50k slab for small companies ( less than n employees or less than n years old) would be nice. I'm not sure what perks we can do though. The US pycon in the valley had a startup row which was a fixed time exhibition for all the startups in a single hall. Something like that would be nice. On 30 November 2017 18:12:47 GMT+05:30, 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?

Anand

On Nov 26, 2017 12:09 PM, "Sayan Chowdhury" <sayan.chowdhury2012@gmail.com> wrote:

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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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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!

On Thu, November 30, 2017 6:12 pm, Anand Chitipothu wrote:

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.

+1 for this. One approach is the "Contributor Ticket" model. Something along the lines of https://2016.pycon-au.org/sponsors/contributor Regards, Vijay

On 2017-12-01 03:27, Vijay Kumar wrote:

On Thu, November 30, 2017 6:12 pm, Anand Chitipothu wrote:

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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.

+1 for this. One approach is the "Contributor Ticket" model. Something along the lines of https://2016.pycon-au.org/sponsors/contributo

This is nice for people who just want to support the event but I don't think it adds much value for the startups themselves. A logo on stage and a link from the website is not much. I'm not sure if that will pull in any business or potential hires (which is usually what these companies are interested in). I think Anand's thrust was that we should make a package that attracts tiny underfunded startups. This is my opinion anyway. They'd willingly throw the money at the conference just to be part of it. This involves two things. 1. Low cost (definitely less than 50k. Preferable less than 25k). This makes the barrier of entry low and there will be people who say "I don't know if it's worth it but what the heck, let's try it anyway. It doesn't cost much." 2. A tangible gain from coming. We cannot piss off the high paying sponsors who will have booth and other things at the event. However, just paying 10k or something and having a link on the website doesn't do much. A startup row which will be active from (say) 14:00 to 17:00 on the first day where the startups can all be in one room with a row of tables. They can pitch their wares, organise little contests or whatever during that time. It won't be exclusive but will be along with other talks. If both these things are there, there will be no reason for them to say no and we can attract a lot of them. This means, more job offers, more people etc. Companies are a huge part of the "community" and given how much effort we're putting in to attract newbie speakers, we should do atleast that much to attract small companies. Not for the money but just to get the companies there.

This involves two things.

1. Low cost (definitely less than 50k. Preferable less than 25k). This makes the barrier of entry low and there will be people who say "I don't know if it's worth it but what the heck, let's try it anyway. It doesn't cost much."

2. A tangible gain from coming. We cannot piss off the high paying sponsors who will have booth and other things at the event. However, just paying 10k or something and having a link on the website doesn't do much. A startup row which will be active from (say) 14:00 to 17:00 on the first day where the startups can all be in one room with a row of tables. They can pitch their wares, organise little contests or whatever during that time. It won't be exclusive but will be along with other talks.

There seems to be a little confusion here. We are planning to have 3 slabs for startups as below. Associate sponsors : 1L Associate sponsors : 50% discount for startups for which we are working on the criteria Start up row : Free for shortlisted startups to showcase their products. Need to work on the criteria for this as well and I will be starting a thread for this soon. IMO, reducing the cost to 25K might help get more startups to sponsor PyCon. But providing a space for all the startups to organize like a job fair might hurt other high paying sponsors. We should also keep in mind the space availability at the venue. If we promise a space for stratups as mentioned and the number of startups who sponsor us go high we might end up having space crunch; looking for a bigger halls will cost us more which we cannot afford unless we get more than 40 sponsors. We are thinking of having a a career booth organized and managed by PyCon India to collect and share the database of candidates looking for job with the sponsors in the order from high to low paying. Hope this helps all sponsors and does not create confusion and chaos among sponsors. We are working on the criteria for this as well. Hopefully, we will have a draft version of sponsorship prospectus available by next week with all the details. -- Thanks, Vijay

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 9:09 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003@gmail.com> wrote:

This involves two things.

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1. Low cost (definitely less than 50k. Preferable less than 25k). This makes the barrier of entry low and there will be people who say "I don't know if it's worth it but what the heck, let's try it anyway. It doesn't cost much."

2. A tangible gain from coming. We cannot piss off the high paying sponsors who will have booth and other things at the event. However, just paying 10k or something and having a link on the website doesn't do much. A startup row which will be active from (say) 14:00 to 17:00 on the first day where the startups can all be in one room with a row of tables. They can pitch their wares, organise little contests or whatever during that time. It won't be exclusive but will be along with other talks.

There seems to be a little confusion here. We are planning to have 3 slabs for startups as below.

Associate sponsors : 1L Associate sponsors : 50% discount for startups for which we are working on the criteria Start up row : Free for shortlisted startups to showcase their products. Need to work on the criteria for this as well and I will be starting a thread for this soon.

IMO, reducing the cost to 25K might help get more startups to sponsor PyCon. But providing a space for all the startups to organize like a job fair might hurt other high paying sponsors. We should also keep in mind the space availability at the venue. If we promise a space for stratups as mentioned and the number of startups who sponsor us go high we might end up having space crunch; looking for a bigger halls will cost us more which we cannot afford unless we get more than 40 sponsors.

So far, the associate sponsors did not get any physical space at the venue. If we are planning to change that and the constraint of physical space is what stopping us from reducing the price, then shall we a reduced price for people who want to sponsor but don't need a physical space? IMHO, keeping the associate sponsor slab at 25K without any physical space and having an additional charge of 10K or so to join the job fair. The job fair will have limited seats and first come first serve. That would make sure we attract more startups to PyCon India without any space constraints. Anand

On Thu, Dec 14 2017, Anand Chitipothu wrote: [...]

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.

I think it's okay to sell the T-shirt sleeves. If that brings in sponsors and helps organise the event better, it's a fair bargain. [...] -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 4:06 PM, satyakam goswami <satyaakam@gmail.com> wrote:

Comment with your thoughts on this sponsorship slabs or add points

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into the sponsorship slab/brochure.

​Hi Sayan,

Can you give Sree and me access to the sponsorship document .

​Gentle reminder to give access :-) ​ ​cheers​ ​ ​ -Satya Satyaakam.net <http://satyaakam.net/> | fossevents.in | ** For all official purposes use my name as Satyakam Goswami **