SponsorShip
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Sponsorship from the PostgreSQL.Org Fundraising Group
How the Fundraising Group votes
Requesting Sponsorship
Types of sponsorship:
The fundraising group primarily sponsors the following:
* Travel to technical tradeshows * We have sponsored various speakers to OSCON, PgCon, East, PHPDB, and various other shows * SWAG (Tshirts, folders, flyers) * Cost of operations * SPI has sponsored West and East (The bi-coastal PostgreSQL Community conferences) * PgDay.EU * OSCON PGDay expenses * LWE PGDay expenses
To request sponsorship send an email to jdrake <at> postgresql.org describing:
* What you are seeking sponsorship for * Total estimated costs for sponsorship
Items taken into account when approving sponsorship
* If requesting sponsorship to provide a talk * Where the talk is being held * Expected attendance to the talk * Cost * Will you provide the talk as Foss or Creative Commons
* If requesting sponsorship for an event
* Are you charging for the event
* Where are the proceeds going
* What will the result of the event be?
* Is it a PUG meeting, thus adding to the community as a whole?
* Will the talk from the PUG meeting be available as FOSS or Creative Commons
* What is the benefit to the community? * Will there be other contributors present that can perform the same function? * Has the community shown an interest in extending whatever the task is? * Is there already an existing community sub project tasks with the process?
