[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: Re: Exhibiting costs at FOSS4G

Thu Apr 14 23:05:03 PDT 2016

Hi,

that's what I thought in rehabilitating the "demo theatre" - an open 
stage where people can have a 10 minute talk. In that room or elsewhere 
we of course can have that pickup table.

Till

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Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Exhibiting costs at FOSS4G
Datum: 2016-04-15 04:52
Absender: Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com>
Empfänger: Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
Kopie: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org

Hi all,

Free pick-up table could be one option. At the FOSS4G Seoul conference,
Seoul team set up a so called free pick-up table there in the lobby
partly for this kind of purpose. Any person was able to share their
materials with others on that table. Also I saw that many one man
business tried to promote their works through self-organising lightning
talk during the lunch.

Kind regards,

  신상희
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Shin, Sanghee
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
http://www.gaia3d.com [9]

> 2016. 4. 15., 오전 2:28, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com [7]>
> 작성:
>
> Isn’t this what the Supporter level is for? €1500 with logo
> presence, shout out in the plenaries and including a full conference
> pass seems reasonable to me.
>
> My recommendation, based on experience of many events, is that a one
> man business would be better networking around the event, doing a bit
> of guerrilla marketing, dropping some leaflets or stickers and 
> meeting
> people. Standing on a small stand with no time for a break and 
> waiting
> for people to come to you doesn’t work that well.
>
> I am not sure that the conference organisers can solve the problems 
> of
> accessibility for small companies from lower income countries. The
> costs are a lot more than just sponsorship or exhibiting and the
> conference does not have surplus funds to subsidise these companies
> unless we in the wealthier countries are willing to make quite large
> donations (increasing ticket prices would prompt a whole load of
> complaints from people who have the strange idea that FOSS4G events
> should be less expensive than they already are or even free)
>
> ______
> Steven
>
>> On 14 Apr 2016, at 14:07, Jonathan Moules
>> <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com [4]> wrote:
>>
>> I'd go a bit further than Till here. Where Till says:
>> 'Perhaps the issue is more: "How could we enable also small
>> companies to present themselves on a FOSS4G?"'
>>
>> which I agree with, I'd also ask:
>> "How can FOSS4G be made more accessible to exhibitors (& delegates)
>> from lower-GDP-nations"
>> (for clarity - I'm in the UK, so wouldn't fall under that). I note
>> the travel-grant (which is good), but that only covers travel.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> ---- On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:09:33 +0100 <> wrote ----
>>
>>> Dear Conference committee,
>>>
>>> I suggested Jonathan to make this a topic in the CC. Before that,
>>> I
>>> clearly explained that we (FOSS4G 2016) can't change our terms,
>>> because a lot of sponsors already accepted our terms and prices
>>> and
>>> that we can't make difference for companies depending on where
>>> they come
>>> from.
>>>
>>> Just wanted to add, that also on former FOSS4G conferences you
>>> never
>>> had the chance to hire a booth without being a sponsor. The only
>>> thing
>>> we changed was, that
>>> sponsorship and exhibition was decoupled. We did so because we
>>> didn't
>>> want to waste sparse room for exhibition for sponsors that don't
>>> man
>>> their booth anyway.
>>>
>>> Perhaps the issue is more: "How could we enable also small
>>> companies to
>>> present themselves on a FOSS4G?"
>>>
>>> For us, as said, looks like that it's too late for Jonathan, I
>>> only can
>>> hint on the demo-theatre we want to revive.
>>>
>>> Regards, Till
>>>
>>> Am 2016-04-14 13:35, schrieb Jonathan Moules:
>>>> Hi List,
>>>> I was interested in potentially exhibiting at Bonn, but it seems
>>>
>>>> that
>>>> this is only available to >= Bronze sponsors, maybe opening up
>>> to
>>>> Supporter level in the future if spaces remain empty.
>>>>
>>>> While Till was explained clearly why this was, this seems to me
>>> to
>>>> be
>>>> somewhat exclusionary for smaller organisations given the
>>> sponsorship
>>>> costs for Bronze level isn't cheap - it's 5-10% of the annual
>>> income
>>>> of a one-man band. For an organisation that's not from a
>>> high-GDP
>>>> country these sums would be even more prohibitive.
>>>>
>>>> Till also pointed out this was still quite cheap and
>>> competative,
>>>> but
>>>> it doesn't seem to be. Assuming I'm reading it right, compare
>>> this to
>>>> GeoBusiness for instance
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
> (http://geobusinessshow.com/wp-content/uploads/GEO16_ExhibitorBro.pdf
>>> [1])
>>>> - £350/m2 (so about the same as the €500/m2 as Bonn) - but no
>>>> sponsorship requirement *and* a potentially much larger audience
>>>> (albeit not OpenSource focused) who themselves also get free
>>>> attendance.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to suggest it may be worth considering how to
>>> facilitate
>>>> exhibitions at FOSS4G from smaller organisations, and
>>> organisations
>>>> from lower-GDP countries.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jonathan
>>>
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