PyConDC2004/Sponsors
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Tentative price list for sponsorship levels for PyConDC2004
The 2004 PyCon conference will be hosted in Washington D.C. March 24-26. This page describes the sponsorship opportunities.
PyCon 2004 is a community-oriented conference. There is no exhibit hall, and product placement in talks is discouraged. The conference has a strong technical focus, and thus attracts key players in the Python community, from industry, academia, non-profits, etc. Sponsors have in the past participated for one or more of the following reasons:
- Increasing brand recognition among Python community in specific and open source community in general
- Recruiting top technical talent
- Helping foster the growth of Python
- Exclusive branding of tote/backpack (details to be determined)
- Keynote sponsorship (Mitch Kapor)
- Opportunity to hang banner in main conference room
- Bag insert
- Listing and logo placement in convention program as platinum sponsor
- Company logo placement and link on conference websites until end of 2004 as platinum sponsor
- Two full 3-day-passes
- Keynote sponsorship for first taker (Guido van Rossum), lunch sponsorship for others
- Bag insert
- Opportunity to hang banner in main conference room
- Listing and logo placement in convention program as gold sponsor
- Company logo placement and link on conference websites until end of 2004 as gold sponsor
- One full 3-day-pass
- Named sponsorship for development "sprints" or morning/afternoon breaks, including opportunity to hang banner in hall/meeting room.
- Bag insert
- Listing and logo placement in convention program as silver sponsor
- Company logo placement and link on conference websites until end of 2004 as silver sponsor
Party sponsorships: up to the sponsor to organize, fund. We'll help advertise.
Opportunity to hand out your company's information material to attendees: $200
Media Sponsors are free. Help us get the word out! List the conference in a prominent space on your website, and we will put your logo on http://pycon.org as a Media Sponsor
- We're flexible. If you have sponsorship requirements which the above does not fit, please contact us with counter-proposals.
If you're interested in becoming a PyConDC2004 sponsor, please contact David Ascher.
Note that we will be accepting sponsorships until the last minute, although clearly some of the swag depends on early commitments.