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

On Tue, 13 May 2014, Grégoire Détrez wrote:

> On 2014-05-12 17:40, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 May 2014, Grégoire Détrez wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Ok. Can you talk to him and try to work out a concrete proposition based
> on this. To me, the main questions would be
> - What can he bring (how many of those bags)?
> - What happens if someone spills club mate on one of those? (or destroys
> it by any other mean?)
>
> Based on that, we can see which deals works best. I don't know how many
> he usually charges for renting but maybe Bronze if he can bring 2 or 3
> and silver if it's closer to 10? I'm not in charge of sponsors so maybe
> Oliver has a different idea. And feel free to suggest something else if
> you think it fits best.

I've discussed this further with Tom, and he would prefer to make
some entertaining event in the chill zone rather than stand in a
booth, and that means he would prefer to be paid rather than
being a sponsor, which would also guarantee him payment rather
than the uncertainty of maybe or maybe not selling sitting bags.
So he suggested a fee of NOK 10 000 for the job.

I suppose this is out of the question, right? Better to use the
limited resources on directly relevant things, such as sponsoring
travel expenses for speakers?

Thomas


> > > > 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?
>
> You can try 
> ghs AT lists.hackerspace.se
>  and 
> info AT collaboratory.se
>  for
> Gothenburg. But I don't know if they have a budget for that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Grégoire