<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>The 'Quality Desserts <a href="http://linux.conf.au">linux.conf.au</a> 2014', I cannot imagine it.<br>
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Good thought, but I feel placing sponsor before the name would be getting a tad too commercial for my liking.<br>
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<a href="http://linux.conf.au">linux.conf.au</a> values its commercial sponsors but it needs to be balanced with a level of independence.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Ian <ilox11@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="internal-source-marker_0.7606888027353764"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Talking
about sponsorships... I was just chatting with others in a model
railway Forum. He was telling me about their naming rights sponsor for
their major event coming up (in Toowoomba) and I thought that this is the kind of
sponsorship we could handle...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br />
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">“As a matter of interest, Quality Desserts have provided cakes for</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">morning afternoon teas for our exhibitions exhibitors and club members,</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">as well as special events for quite a few years now.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">”Sponsorship from them is in the way of financial and product support and</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">we attempt to give them exposure in return for their generosity.”<br class="kix-line-break" />
<br class="kix-line-break" />Quality Desserts is from Toowoomba Queensland. Perhaps a local wanting to go National would be a target for a request?</span></p><br />I have put some other ideas in a documents on Google Drive, "What can we do for something Special?" Please feel free to add to this.<br clear="all" />
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