[Inpycon] Sponsorships for 2011

[Noufal Ibrahim]

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:


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> I'd suggest not spend much money on promotion and instead do these two
> activities
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> For an event with some FOSS touch best would be barter...
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> 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. 


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