[OSGeo-Conf] Conference sponsorship in a muilti-FOSS4G world

[Paul Ramsey]

Actually, no, if you look back through the sponsorship docket the only
consistent high level sponsor that has been location independent has
been Google.

In terms of revenues, measuring by both sponsorship dollars and by
attendance figures, foss4g has been a moving regional+ conference, not
an international conference. Most of the sponsorship and attendance
for any particular iteration has come from the region it is landing
in.

Rather than figure out what level of suppression of North American
activity will keep this situation in place, why not look at either (a)
redefining it, as Arnulf has taken a stab at or (b) revisiting the
location policy which moves it out of the high attendance regions
periodically.

P.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Karel Charvat <charvat at ccss.cz> wrote:
> I think that there are two facts. One is, this companies are biggest global
> players. But this could be advantage of local events, that this could also
> attract local and regional players
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> Karel
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> [mailto:conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jo Cook
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> Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Conference sponsorship in a muilti-FOSS4G world
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> Hi All,
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> Just wondering if people feel there's any likelihood of the main
> international FOSS4G losing sponsorship from the major companies if they
> also have the chance to sponsor more local events. I guess I'm thinking
> specifically about a North American event seeing as how a lot of the global
> event sponsorship comes from North American companies.
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> Any thoughts on that?
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