[kwlug-disc] Starcon could use more sponsors

[L.D. Paniak]

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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