[Inpycon] gaming sponsorship (Was: Re: Reg PyCon India 2018)

[qua non]

+ 1 for keeping entry barrier low for startups, we should do more in this
direction, not less.

We need to go further and be more inclusive as Anand States.

@Anand C, thanks for all your support for the community over the years.


On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Vanitha Shanmugam <vani.pree at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>>    1. Diamond and A la carte sponsorships are removed.
>>    2. For 2 days conference with 1000 participants, the sponsorship cost
>>    seems high for Platinum and Gold.
>>    3. Logo on the t-shirt for Platinum? How would this be handled if we
>>    get say 3 sponsors with just 2 sleeves? There is a tweet (
>>    https://twitter.com/anandology/status/983238586781716480
>>    <https://twitter.com/anandology/status/983238586781716480>) on this
>>    which could have been avoided if they have provided an opportunity to
>>    discuss here.
>>    4. Platinum sponsors slot is more than half the amount of Gold
>>    sponsors with more or less equal benefits.
>>    5. Associate sponsors pay 50,000 and get 6 free passes (24000
>>    registration cost if we go with 4000 per person) which is equal to Gold.
>>
>> I have many more concerns.
>> I presume that this document was updated by sponsorship work group. It
>> seems to me that the sponsorship document was influenced by someone who
>> wants to be an associate sponsor for PyCon India this year as the cost for
>> Associate sponsor was reduced from 1L to 50,000 and additional benefits are
>> provided for less price if I compare this with the original document
>> prepared by Bangalore team earlier.
>>
>
> Yet another baseless allegation and clearly targeted at me. I was the only
> one who suggested that Associate sponsorship slab should be less many times
> in the mailing list and there were no other associate sponsor other than
> Pipal Academy, which I run, in last 2 years.
>
> Have you ever wondered why no one else came forward to become a associate
> sponsor in last 2 years and none the year before? Do you expects a startup
> to shell out 50K just to get a link back to their website? Would anyone be
> so stupid? We at Pipal Academy have made a rule to sponsor every Python
> conference in India and we've sponsored everyone of them after we started
> (except one we missed last year). Again, not because we are expecting
> anything in return, but just because we wanted to be an active part the
> community that we've grown up with.
>
> I've been raising my voice from many years that we have to be inclusive.
> The startups and local companies are part of the ecosystem and we should
> get them part of the community. Just getting more sponsorship money from
> googles and microsofts is not enough. We had many small startups came
> forward and sponsored PyCon India in the early years and I don't see that
> happening and I'm very worried.
>
> For you, it just like like I'm trying to save some money by gaming
> sponsorship? It  shows how narrow minded you are, if nothing else.
>
> And, do you know that I'm not part of the sponsorship workshop, I don't
> even know who all are in that workgroup and I've never communicated with
> them.
>
> If you are in doubt and don't know the context, you should believe that
> the other party is working in good faith and give the benefit of doubt.
> Throwing baseless allegations like this hurts everyone and discourages
> people to come forward and volunteer.
>
> This is not the first time I'm facing this. It consumes so much effort and
> drains all the energy to counter these things.
>
> If you can't contribute positively to the conference, just keep quiet and
> let people move forward. Please stop pulling us back.
>
> Anand
>
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