[CREATE] Pitching a community-funded conference

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Dave Neary wrote:

>  To reinforce this: let's say I'm talking to a Canon guy, one of his
>  questions will be "how many people are coming?" I'd probably say "200".
>  "and you're looking for how much money?" "20,000". "Do you honestly
>  think we're going to get $100 extra profit per attendee at this
>  conference if we sponsor?" And no, of course he isn't. That would mean
>  everyone at the conference buying about $800 worth of Canon equipment.

Do we have any rough estimation how many people will be visiting it?

Do we know ways to raise awareness of the event?

Alexandre