[Foss4g2009] Re: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G sponsorship

[Cameron Shorter]

Daniel,
We haven't made this sort of decision yet for foss4g2009 yet.
You are welcome to contribute when we start discussing sponsorship.
(I'll keep this is the back of my mind).

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> Dear conference committee,
>
>  Last year I commented to some people that FOSS4G2007 sponsorship was out
>  of price for small companies and that this was in my opinion a bad thing
>  since small organizations could not show their support for the event by
>  sponsoring it. It was agreed that our community is for the most part
>  constituted of individuals and small organizations and we said at the
>  time that we'd try to do better in future years.
>
>  Well, I came across the FOSS4G2008 sponsorship doc and the situation
>  doesn't seem to have improved:
>  http://conference.osgeo.org/foss4g2008/docs/FOSS4G2008sponsorshipandexhibitorprospectus15Feb08.pdf
>
>  If I read this right, the lowest sponsorship level costs 40,000 ZAR,
>  which would be about 5k$ (is that right?)... about the same price range
>  as FOSS4G2007 if I remember correctly, so there is no room for the small
>  players this year either.
>
>  What's the plan for 2009? Have we tought about making room for lower
>  levels of sponsorship?
>
>  I have heard the whole argument about the lower levels of sponsorship
>  diluting the value of the higher levels... but come on, this is not the
>  Google/Autodesk annual meeting... let's try to be creative and try to
>  give the small players a chance to get their logo up there and show
>  their support for the event and OSGeo as a whole (FOSS4G2006 could do it
>  so that's not impossible).
>
>  Daniel
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>  Daniel Morissette
>  http://www.mapgears.com/
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