[Inpycon] Sponsorship for PyCon India 2018

[vijay kumar]

>  This involves two things.
>
> 1. Low cost (definitely less than 50k. Preferable less than 25k). This
> makes the barrier of entry low and there will be people who say "I don't
> know if it's worth it but what the heck, let's try
>    it anyway. It doesn't cost much."
>
> 2. A tangible gain from coming. We cannot piss off the high paying
> sponsors who will have booth and other things at the event. However, just
> paying 10k or something and having a link on the website
>    doesn't do much. A startup row which will be active from (say) 14:00 to
> 17:00 on the first day where the startups can all be in one room with a row
> of tables. They can pitch their wares, organise
>    little contests or whatever during that time. It won't be exclusive but
> will be along with other talks.
>

There seems to be a little confusion here. We are planning to have 3 slabs
for startups as below.

Associate sponsors : 1L
Associate sponsors : 50% discount for startups for which we are working on
the criteria
Start up row : Free for shortlisted startups to showcase their products.
Need to work on the criteria for this as well and I will be starting a
thread for this soon.

IMO, reducing the cost to 25K might help get more startups to sponsor
PyCon. But providing a space for all the startups to organize like a job
fair might hurt other high paying sponsors. We should also keep in mind the
space availability at the venue. If we promise a space for stratups as
mentioned and the number of startups who sponsor us go high we might end up
having space crunch; looking for a bigger halls will cost us more which we
cannot afford unless we get more than 40 sponsors.

We are thinking of having a a career booth organized and managed by PyCon
India to collect and share the database of candidates looking for job with
the sponsors in the order from high to low paying. Hope this helps all
sponsors and does not create confusion and chaos among sponsors. We are
working on the criteria for this as well. Hopefully, we will have a draft
version of sponsorship prospectus available by next week with all the
details.


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Thanks,
Vijay
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