[Inpycon] Requesting a table for PSF

[Kushal Das]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Anuvrat Parashar <anuvrat at anuvrat.in> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Kushal Das <kushaldas at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Pardon me if the statement was not clear. The conference is providing the
> sponsors
> a platform where they can interact with the attendees. All the booths there
> would be
> competing with each other for the attention of the attendees "at the
> conference", not
> in the market. Which in their opinion, might dilute the value they expect.
>
>
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>> This is exactly why PyCon US has community booths present, we showcase
>> them in "OPEN SOURCE AND COMMUNITY" in the sponsor page [1].
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>> [1] https://us.pycon.org/2016/sponsors/
>
More than 5 days, just wondering if any of the organizers will
actually reply in this thread.

Kushal
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