[Inpycon] Sponsorship for PyCon India 2018

[Sayan Chowdhury]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been upset with the sponsorship slabs of pycon India for a while. The
> sponsorship slabs are too expensive for startups. Can you name a local
> python shop that sponsored pycon India except pipal academy and zeomega in
> last 2 years? Hacker Earth was the only other one 3 years ago.
>
> I believe the role of sponsorship is more than fund raising. It is a great
> way to connect python companies with the community. In the best interest of
> python community, we should try to maximize the number of companies that get
> connected in addition to making sure we raise enough sponsorship to meet e
> expenses.
>
> In the initial years of PyCon India, almost all sponsorships came from small
> local companies, mostly because they wanted to be part of the community. I
> dont see these kind of companies any more at pycon India.
>
> Not sure if anyone noticed, the lowest sponsorship option for pycon India
> (as proposed in this thread) is more expensive than that of US Pycon.
>
> I think it is time revisit our sponsorship priorities. What does it take to
> get 50 companies to sponsor pycon India and connect them with the python
> community?
>

Apologies on my end to miss that, We will continue to have that
startup slab for small companies (who have less than 10 employees) to
pay 50% to join as an Associate Sponsor.


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