[kwlug-disc] Starcon could use more sponsors

[Paul Nijjar]

Their threshold for giving a ticket for a sponsor is $500. If you were
the only member of the giving group who wanted a ticket out of it I
would be happy for you to have it, but I am not sure that is the case.
(I am agnostic as to whether I attend or not.) 

If you are on the waitlist already then if we put together $500 your
chances of getting a ticket would be better. But I think there is no
guarantee. 

If we got together $1000 then we could have three tickets. 

Here are the sponsorship details for those who are interested: 
https://starcon.io/prospectus/

If you are still willing to be in on this then let me know.

- Paul

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 01:12:22PM -0500, L.D. Paniak wrote:
> I would be willing to kick in $200 here if it gets me a ticket...
> 
> -Lori
> 
> On 12/12/2017 11:17 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > I have just heard back from Starcon. They say that for every $500 in
> > sponsorship they could increase attendance by about 20 people. But
> > they are also wanting an answer about what we would be willing to give
> > by Friday (which makes me a little grumbly given that I contacted them
> > two weeks ago, but whatever). 
> >
> > So the question: do we have enthusiasm for making some contributions
> > to the conference? I would be willing to put $200 towards them if I
> > believed $500+ was feasible. Anybody else? 
> >
> > If you don't want others to know that you are as ostentatiously
> > wealthy as me you could send me an email off-list. 
> >
> > (And yes, I think it is worth supporting KW Linuxfest if they need it
> > as well. There is a bigger conversation around financial support
> > within KWLUG we should be having too. But let's treat those
> > independently from Starcon.) 
> >
> > - Paul
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 06:50:19AM -0500, Raymond Chen wrote:
> >> What a coincidence. I just read Julia's tweet of Kubernetes components
> >> diagram a few hours ago,
> >> https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/872822361199972352?s=09. The drawing is
> >> cool.  Didn't realize she was in our community. Just remembered the Twitter
> >> interesting handle
> >>
> >> Raymond
> >>
> >> On Nov 27, 2017 23:24, "Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Here is another ad! I went to the KW-CyberSecurity meetup this evening
> >>> and one of the organizers of StarCon (starcon.io) was present. She
> >>> said that they would like to have more attendees, but they don't have
> >>> the money to increase venues, catering, etc. She said that Starcon is
> >>> looking for sponsors.
> >>>
> >>> Would you or your company be interested in sponsoring the conference?
> >>> Apparently packages start at $500. I do not know how much money they
> >>> want before they will open up registration to more people, though.
> >>>
> >>> I was not so sure about this conference when I first heard about it,
> >>> but it looks as if it is going to be pretty great. Julia Evans is
> >>> going to be one of the keynotes! She is b0rk on Twitter and has an
> >>> amazing tech blog at jvns.ca , which I highly recommend even if you
> >>> don't care about StarCon. It looks like a bunch of the other talks are
> >>> good too.
> >>>
> >>> I figured that there are some people on this list who are either
> >>> wealthy or work for wealthy companies that might be interested in
> >>> sponsorships, so I am throwing this out there. (I guess KW Linux Fest
> >>> might be another worthy recipient of sponsorships too, but I hear
> >>> rumours that due to labour relations this may be delayed.)
> >>>
> >>> - Paul
> >>>
> >>>
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