Sponsors
Introduction
An international event of the size of FOSS.IN has huge expenses involved with it.
Delegate Expenses
The conference is committed to keeping the costs down to affordable levels for delegates who find themselves having to pay thousands (if not tens of thousands) of Rupees for commercial conferences.
The delegate fees for the entire event is 750 INR per head (500 INR for bonafide students, 3,000 INR for corporate delegates). The amount is used entirely to provide food and conference materials to the delegates for all the days of the event, and is not used for any other expenses.
Speaker Travel and Accommodation
Many speakers who contribute to the event with their knowledge have to travel huge distances to participate in the event. Quite a few of them come from outside India, while others come from remote parts of India. These speakers are the people who make this event happen – they provide the core content of the event. As far as possible, we try to provide at least travel sponsorship to selected speakers, as well as accommodation.
Venue Expenses
These are expenses directly related to the venue. Bangalore has very few (if any) venues that can accommodate events as large as ours, and they tend to be expensive.
Infrastructure Expenses
These are expenses related to providing support services at the event. They include facilities such as networks, internet service, temporary halls and exposition stalls/hangars, labour, event management, etc.
These last three expense heads are met by raising funds from sponsors. We have been extremely fortunate to have been generously sponsored by industry and government. Our sponsors in the past have included the Ministry of Communication and Information technology (Government of India), as well as industry giants such as Nokia, HP, Sun Microsystems, Google, Infosys, IBM, Red Hat, Yahoo, Novell, amongst others.
Please note:
- Under no circumstances will the organisers divulge names or contact information of delegates
- Speaking slots are independent of sponsorship (sponsorship != speaking slot)
- Only full sponsors get stall space at the event.
Forms of Sponsorship
The preferred mode of sponsorship is by paying directly for expenses related to the event. This makes accounting easy for us, and many organisations can write off such expenses directly.
The next form is “in-kind” sponsorship. This is typically for infrastructure elements such as Internet connectivity, venue network, publicity and advertising, etc.
The final form is by payment to a separately audited conference account. As this requires extensive accounting and auditing, we prefer the first two options for sponsorship. However we recognise that in some cases, it is easier for an organisation to provide sponsorship by payment to the conference, and this final option is to provision for such cases.
Sponsorship Opportunities
The following are the sponsorship opportunities available:
Technology Sponsor (Slot has been filled)
The Technology Sponsor is the top sponsor slot at FOSS.IN, by nature of the fact that we are a Technology Conference. The Technology Sponsor’s name/logo appears in all publicity, get’s the largest 9mx3m expo stall, pride of place in all banners and logo placements, 3 banners in each hall, delegate kit enclosures, logo on the FOSS.IN website frontpage for one year, etc. Cost of Sponsorship: INR 600,000
Gold Sponsor
The Gold Sponsor also appears on all publicity, gets a 6mx3m stall, logo/branding 70% of the Technology Sponsor’s logo size, 2 banners in each hall, delegate kit enclosures, logo on the FOSS.IN website frontpage for one year,etc. Cost of Sponsorship: INR 500,000
Silver Sponsor
The Silver sponsor also appears in all publicity, gets a 3mx3m stall, logo/branding at 50% of the Technology Sponsor’s logo size, 1 banner in each hall, delegate kit enclosures, logo on the FOSS.IN website frontpage for one year, etc. Cost of Sponsorship: INR 300,000
Internet Sponsor
The Internet Sponsor provides internet bandwidth to the event, including last-mile connectivity, connecting to the Event Network. Logo appears in selected places at the venue and on the website, brochure enclosures in the delegate kit. Cost of Sponsorship: In-Kind
Travel Partner
The Travel Partner will be responsible for organising air and train travel for speaker within India. Logo appears in selected places at the venue and on the website, brochure enclosures in the delegate kit. Cost of Sponsorship: In-Kind
Media Partner
The Media Partner will be responsible for meia coverage of the event. This is usually a publication or publication group. Logo appears in selected places at the venue and on the website, brochure enclosures in the delegate kit. Cost of Sponsorship: In-Kind
Apply for Sponsorship Slot
FOSS.IN attracts a very specific kind of audience – highly technical, extremely talented, very enthusiastic. You can have a look at last year’s demographics to see what kind of people registered, or you can watch this year’s LIVE statistics as people register. And do pick up this Sponsor Document that has a lot of details in it.
If you would like to be seen supporting the event by being part of it as a sponsor, please fill out this form, and we’ll get right back to you with details.