[GeekDinner-planning] Fwd: Geek Dinner Tuesday 26th @ Neighbourhood

[Jonathan Hitchcock]

Yeah, okay, we don't need to get petty now.  Ignore that email.

Kerry-Anne has pointed out to me that the difference between a sponsor  
and a giver-of-stuff is that there can only be one sponsor of wine,  
one venue, one maker-of-official-shirts, one sponsor-of-hosting, etc,  
but there can be as many givers-of-stuff as there are people to give  
stuff.

And she also pointed out that even though we can refuse any marketers  
who want to exploit us, they're very likely to make a fuss about it if  
they see us as slighting them, and we just don't need that crap.

(And I've eaten now, so I'm less inclined to bite people's heads off.)

So, yeah, very grateful to Springleap, and they know we love 'em, and  
we can blog about 'em if we want, but we'll keep marketing off the  
wiki as much as we can, and let's just move on before these rants get  
worse.



On 29 May 2009, at 1:47 PM, Brad Whittington wrote:

> How about we say this...we only accept a max of 3 'sponsers' per GD.  
> We then get a representative from one of each of these EVIL  
> MARKETING COMPANIES who want RUIN THE SANCTITY OF OUR PRECIOUS  
> GEEKDINNER, and we have a bare-fist cage fight between  
> representatives. The last three people standing get to be called  
> sponsors, and every one else has to wait for the next dinner for the  
> priveledge of giving us free stuff. Or maybe we institute an 8 item  
> rule, if they give us 8 items or more, then we call it sponsorship,  
> 7 or less is just free stuff. Or maybe we call it sponsorship if  
> they are giving us something free that constitutes part of their  
> core business (for e.g. delheim sells wine, springleap sells t- 
> shirts, frogfoot does something or other with internet). Or we  
> evaluate if having their free stuff made the dinner more awesome.
>
> Now that we mention it, and we are evaluating sponsorships, I am a  
> bit incensed that frogfoot gets to be a 'sponsor' when all they have  
> donated is some webserver space and bandwidth, my company actually  
> considers webserver space and bandwidth to be so close to free that  
> it wouldn't ever charge for it. I think we should just err on the  
> side of caution and not give a crap, and just say thanks to each  
> different company that has made a contribution to making GD awesome.  
> If Delheim needs to hear that they are sponsors, then lets call them  
> sponsors, if springleap needs to hear they are the official chickens  
> of geek dinner, then cluck cluck, lets call them the chickens. Geeks  
> are champions at what if, and oh my god imagine if the whole world  
> suddenly turned to crap RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES, we have to PREVENT  
> THAT AT ALL COSTS.
>
>
>
> Brad Whittington
>
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> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jonathan Endersby <arbitraryuser at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> hi.
>
> 2009/5/29 Joe Botha <joe at frogfoot.com>:
> >> 'get' design... perhaps they could make a geekdinner shirt that I'd
> >> actually wear... and perhaps they could sponsor 100 of those to the
> >
> > Nice idea.
>
> Thanks, maybe someone should suggest it to them?
>
> > ps. You don't like my design?.. let's take this outside :-P
>
> I don't look good in green. ;)
>
> j.
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