Prospectus and Sponsorship Documents for FUDCon Tempe 2011

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:40:43PM -0600, Clint Savage wrote:
> As promised, I am sending an email with a couple requests for
> information regarding both venue and operational information and
> corporate sponsorships for FUDCon Tempe 2011
> 
> I've created both the prospectus[0] and sponsorship[1] documents on
> the wiki and provided links below.  In addition, I've written a short
> description of the goals of both of these documents on the logistics
> page[2].  However, I'll include those descriptions here for clarity.
> 
> Prospectus
> 
> The goal of the prospectus document is to provide a sense of the
> conference to potential sponsors and vendors who might be providing
> services. This allows them to see if the conference is something that
> fits in line with their normal vision of what they sponsor. This
> document also provides information about the event, venue, number and
> type of people who attend the conference.
> 
> Sponsorship
> 
> The goal of the sponsorship document is to provide a basic set of
> sponsorships available at FUDCon Tempe 2011. However, these are just
> guidelines and if a sponsor wishes to provide services not listed,
> other sponsorships can and should be accommodated. The representative
> should use their best judgment to cover the needs of the conference
> first and the sponsors interest second.
> 
> The focus of these documents is *not* to provide granular detail, but
> rather to help the potential sponsor(s) with making decisions.  We
> want them to sponsor our conference, not read a dissertation on why
> FUDCon is awesome.  I've done a bit of that here, but am hoping we can
> have a more focused statements as I've written in the documents below.
> 
> I'd like to get the documents complete before our next meeting so if
> you could make edits or comment to this thread, it would be much
> appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Clint
> 
> 0 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011_prospectus
> 1 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011_sponsorships
> 2 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011_logistics

Thanks Clint -- Sorry this reply is late, I got quite behind due to
OLF.  Some points:

* There's a section on "Focus" for the event.  This isn't something
  I've seen at most FUDCons, simply because different groups attending
  have different focus areas.  People gathering for infrastructure
  work focus on that area; Ambassadors focus on how to more
  efficiently move swag, promote at events, and so forth.  Is it OK to
  remove this?

* I think it makes sense to combine the prospectus and sponsorships
  documents -- they're both pretty short and making people backtrack
  to get details seems unnecessary.

* Is the A/V sponsorship something you already have details on, or is
  that just an example row?

* Has the sponsorship email alias already been created, or does
  someone need to do that?



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