The bronze sponsorship is a great idea. Good thinking! Can the posters be placed in and around the break area? Posters in a separate room are usually useless at a conference, but if they are in the main snacking/break area, then they can be great for continuing of conversations during the breaks... - Dan<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Gavin Fleming <<a href="mailto:GavinF@mintek.co.za">GavinF@mintek.co.za</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">POSTERS</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We haven't made posters an official track yet but we've
established that there is space for poster boards at the CTICC so we can offer
posters as a track</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We can install boards that will take 32 A0 landscape posters.
This will come at a cost of R3500. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Any objections to having a poster session or allocating this
amount to it, please speak up by Monday as I plan to announce this on Tues.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">BRONZE sponsorship</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">There's demand for a smaller sponsorship category. To
this end I plan to include a new Bronze category in the Prospectus for the
equivalent of USD1000 and announce it next week, offering sponsors </span></font></p>
<p style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA">- I1 full
conference pass</span></font></p>
<p style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA">- Hot-linked logo
on the conference website as bronze sponsor</span></font></p>
<p style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA">- Org. name +
logo in the conference program as bronze sponsor</span></font></p>
<p style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA">- Logo in a slide
with other bronze sponsors in opening plenary</span></font></p>
<p style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA">- Space for a
small banner somewhere in the conference venue</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">(thanks to Daniel Morisette for raising this and making
these suggestions)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Likewise please respond asap with any objections /
suggestions.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">cheers </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gavin Fleming </span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">MSc, Pr. GISc Technologist</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Senior GISc and
Sustainable Development Researcher </span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FOSS4G2008 conference
chair: <a href="http://www.foss4g2008.org/" target="_blank">http://www.foss4g2008.org</a></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mintek, </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">200 Malibongwe Drive</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> (formerly Hans Strijdom Drive)</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">P/Bag X3015, Randburg,
2125, </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">South Africa</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">w: +27-11-709-4668 c:
+27-845965680 f: 0866164820</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">xmpp: </span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="mailto:gavinjfleming@gmail.com" target="_blank">gavinjfleming@gmail.com</a></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
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