[Inpycon] Requesting a table for PSF

[Kushal Das]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Anuvrat Parashar <anuvrat at anuvrat.in> wrote:
> Hey
>
> Physical space be it tables or a booth is meant for sponsors. People who
> have paid, not to mention quite handsomely for the same. At least, this is
> the message all our communication / sponsorship brochures project.
>
> While there might be no harm in taking the "chalta hai" (everything goes)
> approach and setting up our PSF, PyDelhi, and BangPypers tables at the
> conference (I would love have one for PyDelhi) why give the sponsors an
> opportunity to crib about something? First such remark may come from
> Associate Sponsors who are not getting even a table.
>
> If we would like to do it, shall we  ensure that it gets included in the
> sponsorship brochures from the beginning itself and the sponsors know it
> upfront that the local / global Python Communities will be competing with
> them for the time and attention of people loitering between talks?
>
Sponsors are coming to a community event so that they can reach out to bigger
community. That is exactly why every sponsor pays. The community groups on the
other hand are coming to an event run by community for the community. These
groups are not for profit company, and they are not trying to compete
in the market.

This is exactly why PyCon US has community booths present, we showcase
them in "OPEN SOURCE AND COMMUNITY" in the sponsor page [1].

[1] https://us.pycon.org/2016/sponsors/


Kushal
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