Local Community Sponsor Tables?

[Remy DeCausemaker]

Josh,

At both PyCon and OSCON, community projects getting tables have been referred to as "Community Sponsors," so that was the language I was familiar with. I'm more than happy to call it whatever we want, so long as it increases the participation and quality of the space :)

I know that our local hackerspaces usually bring cool stuff to demo at our local un/conferences such as pen-plotters, 3D printers, and other retro-hardware hacks. I dunno if this constitutes a "service" necessarily, but I think it would add value for paying sponsors to have those types of projects in the same room to help draw more attendees, so long as it doesn't impinge available space.

Hope this helps,
--RemyD.


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Remy DeCausemaker 
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Fedora Community Lead & Council Member
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Planning discussion for Flock (Fedora Contributor Conference)" <flock-planning at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 11:39:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Local Community Sponsor Tables?
> 
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Remy DeCausemaker <rdecause at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > Flocks,
> >
> > I am curious about community sponsor tables at FLOCK. I am circling the
> > wagons with local tech meetups and hacker/maker spaces in Rochester, and
> > would like to encourage them to participate. Is there a process for such
> > arrangements outside of gold/silver/bronze sponsorship for local/community
> > projects?
> 
> Hm.  Do you literally mean community sponsor, or do you mean community
> showcase?  The former implies they are providing something towards the
> conference, whether it be funds or services or whatever.  The latter
> is something we've not done before.  I'm not sure if we have a room
> for it, but we can check.
> 
> josh
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