[FOSS4G2016] "Geo4All - MapStory Challenge" - FOSS4G 2016 Student Competitions

[Gert-Jan van der Weijden]

Hi all,

Interesting thought, though, to identify "sponsorable" objects:  
awards, catering (plates, coffecups), venues and rooms, tracks, etc.
OK, perhaps "Google Gala Dinner" and "Esri Ice breaker" give a bit of  
a bad taste in the mouth. What about "Gala Dinner, presented by Google"?

In sports this is a common phenomenon in several countries: e.g.  
Barclays Premiership for Englands soccer competition, Croky Cup for  
the Belgium soccer cup. In Germany it's less common I guess. The  
"Bundesliga" is still "Bundelsliga" without a sponsor-prefix.

But not just in sports, also in congresses it's not uncommon to have a  
sponsorship even for individual talk or keynotes.

Just curious: any other thoughts on what we regard as acceptable items  
to be sponsored?


Regards,

GJ





Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de> schreef:

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> Hi Bart,
>
> I think every conference sponsorship prospectus offers the sponsorship
> of certain events, so a company could pay for the lunch of a code
> sprint, etc..
>
> The Geocat developer award was maybe a very smart way of marketing,
> but it didn't exclude any project.
> But if you take for example the "Nasa World Wind Challenge", then I
> would assume that to participate I need to make use of this software,
> and that's the issue some have with the Geo4all challenge if it's
> named after a project.
>
> Maybe it's worth to think about, if an award or event needs to have
> the sponsors name be a part of the title. I wouldn't be so excited
> about a FOSS4G where we have the "Google Gala Dinner", an "ESRI Ice
> Breaker" or a whatever else you can think of, especially if the
> sponsorship amount is relatively low.
>
> But I'm not against sponsors and awards!
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 01/10/15 22:45, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>> I also did not see the whole discussion, since foss4g2016 got
>> included late in the game, so apologies if this has been discussed
>> before.
>>
>> There was a Geocat student award in Seoul or not, since Geocat
>> sponsored it.
>>
>> What’s wrong with companies / not-for-profits sponsoring specific
>> student awards if they pay extra sponsorship money for it? If they
>> sponsor, I don’t see a problem with their name ending up in the
>> award / competition.
>>
>> Best regards, Bart
>>
>>> On 01 Oct 2015, at 15:41, Jeff McKenna
>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> In fact Daniel that was my very first response to Suchith, about
>>> 50 emails ago.  If you can champion that, work with Suchith to
>>> explain, that would be very helpful.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>
>
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