Sponsors help us provide a great, free event. Last time, we had sponsors pitch in for t-shirts, bkfst, lunch and dinner, drinks, bar tabs, coffee, misc supplies (tape, toiletries, cups, plates, etc.)
Here's the pitch I sent sponsors last time:
http://www.amitgupta.com/static/barcamp_sponsor.txt
Mike did the budget for BarCampNYC 1, and he has a breakdown of what we spent money on here:
http://barcamp.org/BarCampBudget
Some of those people should be willing to re-up. RedBull has already told Amit they're interested.
Current Status
Putting down a list of all the people who say "No" is probably inappropriate. I'm going to keep a list of potentials, and a list of people who've said yes, and just remove the no's from the potentials list. (You could reverse-engineer out the no's, but it's not immediately obvious)
Yes
Email outstanding:
- Mozdex (cks: email bounced)
- Stormhoek wines (technically, we're after the Aug 9 cutoff) (cks)
- BackBeat Media
- PubSub
- Joyent
- Schematic
- Panther Express
People to talk to
(Add your name in parens if you've reached out to someone there)
- Google (multiple possible contacts, also ref space) (cks: talked to someone who was going to forward me to someone, but haven't heard back. anybody else have a contact?)
- AIGA
- Zeldman/Happy Cog
- BWAY.net
- Pando
- Razorshark (cks)
Questionable
- SXSW Interactive Festival is donating a complimentary registration to the 2006 festival. cks: SXSWi is a little far off, any other suggestions?
