[Inpycon] PyCon India 2019 Sponsorship Slabs - draft

[Kushal Das]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 7:28 PM Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org> wrote:
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>
> Hi Kushal,
> As indicated in the draft, only Platinum sponsors get a *talk slot*,
> Gold sponsors get only a *lightning talk slot*, Silver sponsors get an
> *openspace slot*, and associate sponsors get a *poster presentation
> slot*. We will ensure that schedules and listings published indicate the
> sponsored nature of the slot.
>
> We hope these slots will help sponsors better engage with the audience.
> The openspace slot and poster presentation slot, is something that we
> are introducing this year. Both add benefits to the sponsors without
> taking away time from the conference schedule, because both openspaces
> and posters can be scaled spatially.
>
> We had first hand experience with doing sponsored posters, at PySangamam
> 2018. It was well received by both the sponsors and the audience. The
> sponsored posters will be especially useful for small startups who want
> do an associate sponsor, and we hope it will to a certain extent solve
> the problem indicated by Anand in
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/2018-April/012000.html
>
> Hope I have been able to put forward the reasoning behind the sponsored
> slots. If you still have concerns, do let us know.
>
Thank you for the explanation.

Kushal
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