<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Chris Neugebauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrisjrn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Indeed, this option was mooted in the previous centi-thread. There</div>
are two counterarguments here:<br>
<br>
1) Such a method would generate an unreasonable paperwork burden upon<br>
the council, given that this approach would need to be made available<br>
to every LA-run conference. If it's not offered to every conference,<br>
then it strikes me as counterproductive.<br>
<br>
2) It's counterproductive, as we'll then lose the brand recognition<br>
that comes from multiple conferences being run under the same banner.<br>
If PyCon AU is run by PyCon AU, then selling e.g. LCA onto PyCon's<br>
sponsors becomes a more difficult task, rather than an easier one as<br>
it currently is.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Create one business name, ie FOSCAN or whatever, and write all the</div><div>cheques from that.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
</div>It's definitely the latter, but it's not an insignificant number. I<br>
would say that about half of our sponsors are new to LA, and I've had<br>
to explain the purpose of LA to all of these.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you'll be swapping explaining what linux asutralia is with what</div><div>foscan is. The good thing about linux australia is it's sort enough</div>
<div>to say the full name, I can't even remember what foscan stands for.</div><div>People will more likely say foscan rather than the six words,</div><div>and foscan is meaningless.</div><div>(I'm just using foscan as an example of a potential new name)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lastly I think the subject is miss leading, LA isn't really being renamed,</div><div>as I understand it, it's being reorganised, LA will still exist and a new name</div><div>will be created.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So why not put foscan under la, and if the majority see it's working well,</div><div>swap it so la comes under foscan.</div><div><br></div></div>