[kwlug-disc] Starcon could use more sponsors

[Paul Nijjar]

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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