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Hi Steven,<br>
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thank you for your quastions - here are our comments:<br>
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Dates<br>
We do not see any problems regarding Intergeo, in contrast, better
not having the same date as it was years before. In general,
Intergeo is not the reason for the early date - as said in our
proposal it's more, that September is really busy in Bonn and for
this it leads to problems with WCCB availability, higher costs for
WCCB and also more expensive accommodations. That are the real
reasons why planning end of August. <br>
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We think regarding summer holiday season it's not that problem as we
are quiet early, when announcing the conference in march 2015, so
that potential attendees may plan their summer holiday for 2016
around that date. <br>
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Sponsorship<br>
Regarding our sponsorship expectations we know that our figures are
really cautious. Our PCO said in the first meeting, that we should
not calculate with <b>any</b> sponsorship, but as Paul said, there
are "traditional" sponsoring companies at FOSS4G over the past
years. So that's why we calculated carefully with 41K € income on
that side. <br>
We think it's much better and also more serious not to expect too
much on that side and then being kind of "surprised"... and also
that holds us to keep costs as low as possible in general ;-)<br>
By the way, that's the same we do when estimating our budget for
FOSSGIS conferences as well.<br>
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On the other hand - regarding the potential we have here in Bonn and
neighborhood with e.g. Cologne and Ruhrgebiet and the whole region
situated in North-Rhine-Westfalia with alone 21 Million inhabitants
in a surrounding of less than 200 kilometres (not mentioning states
and countries in the neighbourhood): <br>
In general there are many, many well known regionally, nationaly and
globally known IT- and geobusiness companies around here fitting
really well to FOSS4G-business and I am reasonably sure, that we can
certainly achieve much more sponsorship than depicted.<br>
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All together, following this argumentation for respectable reasons
we can't and won't surprise with any fixed or almost fixed Gold and
Platinum sponsors at this early stage of plannings. All we can do is
to assure, that there are several targeted candidates even for
sponsorship levels of Gold and even more and that of course we will
work on that as soon as possible.<br>
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We hope that meets your expectations,<br>
<br>
Regards, Till & Bonn Team<br>
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Hi Bonn and Dublin
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<div class=""><b class="">Dates</b></div>
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<div class="">You have both gone for dates in mid to late August
(Bonn 24th, Dublin 17th) - have you considered the impact on
attendance from European delegates during our traditional summer
holiday season? Is there really much problem with clashing with
InterGeo? Might be worth polling past delegates. What are the
implications of moving to September</div>
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<div class="">There is a massive difference in sponsorship
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<div class="">Bonn sponsorship is very cautious at €41.5k which is
good at this stage, can you give a slightly more optimistic feel
for what you think you might achieve in x Platinum, y Gold type
format - no names although I would expect you to be able to
confirm a 2:1 target ratio minimum (i.e. if you think you will
have 2 Golds you need a minimum of 4 targets to approach)</div>
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<div class="">Dublin sponsorship is very ambitious at €198k
particularly as you also intend to charge €40k for exhibition
space. How have you arrived at these figures? Note that 2013 was
an exceptionally fortunate year which may not be a basis to
model your sponsorship in Dublin. If you only achieved the Bonn
level of sponsorship and exhibition income you would make a
crashing loss, how can you mitigate this risk?<br class="">
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