[Debconf6-data-commit] r397 - in sponsors: . logos

[Andreas Schuldei]

Author: andreas
Date: 2006-03-14 20:23:53 +0000 (Tue, 14 Mar 2006)
New Revision: 397

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+DebConf, the annual international Debian conference, will be held
+in Oaxtepec, Mexico, from May 14th to May 22nd 2006, with
+DebCamp, a problem solving workshop, preceeding it..  
+
+I recommend the great report about last year's conference
+http://media.debconf.org/dc5/index.html which illustrates nicely
+the broad spectrum, quality and enthusiasm of the community at
+work.
+
+Because the Debian Project doesn't engage in commercial
+activities, it depends on donations from well-wishers.  A modest
+amount of sponsorship would not only help Debian immensely but
+would reap huge dividends in terms of goodwill in the Linux
+community at large.  There are a number of ways in which we could
+benefit from sponsorship.  A list, sorted in order from highest
+priority to least, follows:
+
+1. Travel expenses for renowned developers on a tight budget.
+
+2. Housing will cost us around 27kUSD. We will stay in a family
+hotel and 4-6 participants will share one room.
+
+3. Hardware (borrowed) for the event. We will set up
+networking and need a few (3) central servers for cpu-intensive
+tasks as well as a couple (20-30?) of notebooks as well as
+networking equipment (switches and accesspoints).
+
+4. Food and beverages for the HackLab and the conference.  We
+plan to have more than one common dinner, since these events
+provide an opportunity for the entire group to gather in a
+community-building setting. We have projected food costs of
+~60kUSD (formal dinner:6k, lunch:20k, breakfast and dinner: 17k
+each).
+
+
+5. T-shirts and towels with the Debian swirl (front) and
+sponsor's logo (back) (~5kUSD).
+
+6. One or two day trips both for developers as well as for
+significant others to sights and places of interest or
+recreation. (~10kUS)
+
+
+Looking at the historic development of the event we have been
+growing steadily, which indicates an increasing importance and
+(corporate) interest:
+
+Year                    People  Budget 
+2000    Bordeaux        30?     0?     
+2001    Bordeaux        50?     0?     
+2002    Toronto         90      5k     
+2003    Oslo            128     25k    
+2004    Porto Allege    153     75k    
+2005    Helsinki        300     150k   
+
+This time we have 200 registered participants already, and expect
+at least 300 attendees. Eventhough we have lower accommodation
+costs per person in Mexico compared to Finnland, the overall
+costs will be higher, since more will use the sponsored
+accommodation which is of higher quality then last year.
+Furthermore we already now have received almost twice the travel
+support requests we had last year (80k this year vs 45kUS last
+year). The resulting projected budget is around 180k USD.
+
+As sponsorship returns we can offer your logo on
+
+ - the conference Tshirt
+ - the website
+ - the food tickets
+ - the conference material (conference proceedings etc)
+ - the transparents
+ - the full page Thanks You addvertisement in LinuxMagazines worldwide
+
+and your name mentioned in the press releases.
+
+If you provide your own transparents we could put them up in the
+lobby, the auditoriums, the hacklab, etc.  Handouts and flyers
+can be put in the sleeping rooms and the conference bags. You
+could even provide the conference bags with your logo on it.
+
+Thanks in advance!
+
+Andreas Schuldei
+andreas at debian.org
+
+