Thread: Sponsoring participants to the Maemo Summit
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2009-07-29 , 23:20
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Originally Posted by dneary View Post
Someone might well want to travel from Wellington to be with the maemo.org people for the Summit, and have some interesting things to say in a presentation, but is his presence worth the $3000 it will take to get him there, when we could bring 10 people in Europe to Amsterdam for the same cost?

The only way to handle sponsorship requests is subjectively, and there's no way to put an objective filter on it to fix that - sorry to disagree with you Jaffa.
I don't have a problem with disagreement[1], don't worry :-)

To clarify, with your subjective-criteria-only, it'd have to be something damned impressive to get sponsorship from that far away, even if the content committee considered it good enough to share. So "just" good stuff from Wellington will have to be presented by someone rich (or not presented at all this year, which is probably also valid)? :-/

Cheers,

Andrew

[1] Although you're wrong, and I hate you! And I'm going into the garden to eat some worms...
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