Thanks Peter.
My opinion is that the cost for a Platinum sponsorship was too high for the size of the conference. I also recall that there were no takers for Platinum last time, and we should factor that into this year’s sponsorship pricing.
How about this:
Platinum - 2,500 € Gold - 1000 € Silver - 500 €
The lower-priced Silver tier would probably attract sponsors who felt that the previous cost for a Silver sponsorship was out of their reach. It’s also likely that, to the benefit of the conference, lower pricing will be attractive to more sponsors.
I could also see an upward adjustment of these figures by 250 € without too much harm:
Platinum - 2,750 € Gold - 1250 € Silver - 750 €
Thoughts?
-Matt
On Jul 15, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Peter Gietz peter.gietz@daasi.de wrote:
Hi,
I did have a look at the numbers (Silver 1000 €, Gold 2000 €, Platinum 4000 €). For so little numbers of participants, I thought that the numbers should definitely not exceed these figures and may be some more sponsors would come, if the prices would be cheaper. By mistake, I thought that those were the final numbers, I already sent the filled out sponsor form to administration@lists.ldapcon.org , going for silver.
If numbers will change I'd like to have the chance to decide new which option to take.
Cheers,
Peter
Am 14.07.2015 um 21:29 schrieb Andrew Findlay:
I sent round some ideas about sponsorship prices a couple of weeks ago. I don't have my email archive with me but everyone should have a copy. I was asking for comments on the numbers - particularly from potential sponsors - but nobody said anything.
We need to choose the numbers ASAP because I think we need most of the sponsors signed up before setting the ticket price. I should have pushed this harder before.
Kimball: could you take the lead on this? Clément can tell you how the negotiations worked last time. He has already circulated the 2013 invitation to sponsors.
Thanks
Andrew
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