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[Thomas Gramstad <thomas AT ifi.uio.no>]

On Sat, 10 May 2014, Grégoire Détrez wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> On 2014-05-07 23:25, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
> > Is there interest to have a chill section at FSCONS with a
> > (relatively) large number of Chill Bill sitting bags?
>
> I think there is. One (the only?) criticism we got about the 
> new venue was that the café was a bit more "cozzy" at 
> Lindholmen (with the sofa, etc...)

:-)

> On 2014-05-08 23:43, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
> > 1. I'm thinking that I can ask him to be a sponsor for FSCONS --
> > meaning that he pays all his own expenses, gasoline etc. and let us
> > borrow the sitting bags during FSCONS.
> >
> > So then my question is, what do sponsors get in return? I'm guessing
> > their name/logo/link to their website on FSCONS' web site and in the
> > program flyer? Anything else?
>
> Yes! Here are the sponsor deals we had last year, to give you an idea:
> https://fscons.org/2013/sponsorships.html

That looks good. I'm guessing gasoline alone will be close to
half the bronze amount, then there is free rent/use of the bags
during the entire FSCONS, and I'm sure Tom can offer some pretty
good discounts on bags sold during FSCONS as well. Maybe even
offer some free bags to be kept by FSCONS -- but I haven't yet
discussed that with him.

> > 2. Tom indicated that he would need help from volunteers at FSCONS to
> > unload and carry the bags from the van and into the chill section,
> > and back to the van after FSCONS.
>
> That shouldn't be too much of a problem.
>
> > 3. He would obviously be happy if people at FSCONS bought some 
> > of the bags and he didn't have to drive them all back to 
> > Norway. Maybe FSCONS or FFKP would be interested to buy 
> > sitting bags for use at other events?
>
> I think in the case of both fscons and ffkp, it's gonna be 
> difficult to find space to store those.

Hmm, they can't be used as furniture elsewhere between
conferences?

> But there might be other who can be interested, such as
> hackerspaces (ghs, collaboratory...) or some startups.

OK -- do you have contact info for some of those?


> On 2014-05-08 16:16, Theo Phase wrote:
> > If there are no catches then we can take up this great offer at the
> > next meeting.
> Or we can continue the discussion here. I don't really see a benefit of
> discussing that during a work meeting, especially since it's difficult
> for Thomas to join the meeting from Norway :-)
>
> /ǵ
>
>
> P.S. To be honest, it wasn't the only criticism: some people 
> also missed the geeky room names :)

Heh! Me too :-)

Thomas