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SkypeCampSponsorRequest

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on May 4, 2006 at 12:54:44 pm
 

Hello, potential sponsor.

 

I'm helping organize SkypeCamp, a component of this June's eBay Developer Conference in Las Vegas. This is a geek event. I wanted to get your take on your company sponsoring it.

 

Here's the (brief) pitch:

 

SkypeCamp: SkypeCamp is a weekend-long un-conference with the goal of bringing together developers to share ideas and learn from each other. SkypeCamp is in conjunction with the formal, highly structured lecture and laboratory format of the eBay DevCon (800-1000 attendees). Anyone is welcome, and all attendees are expected to give a demo, a session, or help with one. We'll also have a Skype Code-A-Thon, where teams will create new Skype apps overnight, demo them on Sunday, and be voted by their peers.

 

Benefits:

  • As a sponsor, you'll have your name listed on the event wiki, and we'll thank you at the end of the conference
  • We'll express our gratitude on Skype Journal, of course
  • We'll even throw in premium banner adds on Skype Journal for a few weeks, longer with your generosity
  • You'll have your company's name associated with a hip, underground techie event, earn the goodwill and attention of 150 or so Skype and eBay alpha geeks in attendance, and countless others scattered across the country via the wiki and Skypecasts. And all for just a few hundred bucks!

 

Sponsorship options:

  • $1500 for t-shirts
  • $2500 to send Bill Campbell, Skype Journal's technical editor
  • $1500 to send Phil Wolff, Skype Journal's troublemaker in chief
  • $1500 for food and snacks for the campers
  • anything else you'd like to pitch in

 

Unleashing the creativity and diverse interests of developers makes this fun. We can't wait to see what happens with this. This is exactly in the spirit of celebrating Skype as a platform that Skype Journal promotes. We'd love for you to take part and to share your enthusiasm for the Skype technical and business ecology.

 

Skype/eBay are not kicking in any cash, but they are including SkypeCamp in the official program and will make meeting spaces available as the official schedule permits.

 

Let's talk. Skype me at evanwolf or call me on my mobile at +1-510-444-8234.

 

Phil Wolff, editor, Skype Journal, an independent online newspaper

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