[FOSS4G2016] meeting with PCO yesterday

[Marc Zakelijk]

Hi Till
Great to have them on board!
Good to have an umbrella arrangement. But we need to be clear and precies before we set them to work. But my feel from a distance is that we are getting already too quick in detailed actions.
GertJan and I will visit you next week to discuss our marketing policy and planning. Which needs to be comprehensive enough to present to the LOC for further input and comments.

Gertjan and I will have an initial concept and format ready by monday to give some direction to our meeting. 

Vriendelijke groet,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 24 sep. 2015 om 08:41 heeft till.adams at fossgis.de het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I had a meeting with Conrad Seyffert from Media Company, our PCO yesterday.
> 
> I made the proposal to have kind of support-contingent for about 50 days first and decide, at which side they might support us with marketing, on-site stuff like banners and so on later.
> 
> There were two good outcomes we had yesterday:
> We discussed whether it might be clever to seperate sponsorship and exhibition. The idea came upp, because the gold sponsors in Korea had really big booth, they actually didn't use. Also Google didn't show up at the exhibition and so forth...
> 
> So an idea (and I like it) was, we have our sponsorship levels with all the benefits we can offer and on top, every sponsor may also rent an extra booth. For this, we only must offer at least 2 booth sizes, one for a single place and one "normal" with let's say 4x2m (or whatever is this size of these dog crates). And if someone really wants to have a bigger booth, they might rent two.
> In general it might be, that exhibition space is limited, because of terms of emergency issues. We contact WCCB with that.
> 
> Second we discussed the item, "how do we get people to register early". Mister Seyffert said big price difference ("it must hurt"), second idea was to have a goodie for early birds. An idea came up yesterday (while watching soccer): Why not create an extra "10. FOSs4G Conference" T-Shirt and early birds get the logos of past conferences ontheir back, where they have been... just a gimmick, but I know that T-Shirts have kind of cultic status in our community.
> 
> What's your ideas on that?
> 
> So far, Till
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