[Yapc-na-organizers] Sponsorship prospectus

Jim Brandt cbrandt at buffalo.edu
Thu Oct 30 11:49:38 PDT 2008


It would be cool to save this sort of support material up on the wiki so 
future organizers could find it without having to track everyone down.

http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_event_organizers/index.cgi



Jeremy Fluhmann wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Pete Krawczyk <petek at bsod.net 
> <mailto:petek at bsod.net>> wrote:
> 
>     In 2006, which was the first year this was done, we actually had
>     sponsors request this, because it was what they were used to from
>     other conferences.  We repeated in 2008 for the same reason.
> 
>     I can only assume 2007 was the same way.
> 
> 
> Yes, it was. 
> 
> I don't have the document that we used in Houston, but Wade or Will might.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
>     On 10/30/08, Dave Rolsky <autarch at urth.org
>     <mailto:autarch at urth.org>> wrote:
>      > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Pete Krawczyk wrote:
>      >
>      >> Keep in mind that some people will be critical of anything that
>     looks
>      >> like commercialism, as opposed to sponsorship.  (We received a
>      >> complaint this year about the logos on the shirt, for example.)
>      >
>      > Do the sponsors actually ask to have their logos on the shirts,
>     or did
>      > someone just volunteer this?
>      >
>      > I'm one of those people who hate this. I don't wear the YAPC
>     shirts from
>      > 2006 on because of this, except under another shirt.
>      >
>      > FWIW, when we did Frozen Perl nobody asked about getting their
>     logo on the
>      > shirt, and we didn't offer it.
>      >
>      > I would _love_ to see a return to the logo-less shirts so I can start
>      > wearing them during the summer again.
>      >
>      >
>      > -dave
>      >
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