<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><br>Hi List,<br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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) - £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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br>Cheers,<br>Jonathan<br></div></body></html>