Sponsors

Sponsors

Sponsoring membership offers companies the opportunity of actively supporting FLOSSUK’s events while making it easier for FLOSSUK to further its aims and objectives.

A sponsoring membership provides an ideal mechanism to make new contacts, exchange views, and debate technical matters and other areas of interest. This involvement can increase the profile of a sponsor company by its association with this leading, independent group.

Introduction

For several years, we have offered a sponsoring membership category. This allows sponsoring companies to gain exposure at our events on a regular and on-going basis.

There are six categories of sponsoring membership: Open/Affiliate, General, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. The details are outlined below.

Flexible sponsorship of single events (outside the sponsoring membership scheme) is also available: speak to us if that is more suitable to your needs.

Benefits to all sponsors include

  • Literature for distribution in delegate bags.
  • Free conference passes to man a conference stall (does not include entry to talks or events nor conference dinner).
  • Logo and one paragraph of text on the conference web site and yearly organisation annual.
  • Listed on the organisations website under sponsors.
  • Mentioned in conference publicity and email.
  • One membership (for voting and official positions – excluding associate/open community sponsors).

Sponsorship monies will be used for a variety of items including the conference dinner, speaker, travel, bursaries and other conference related costs. As we sponsor other events in the UK including Barcamps, Unconferences and Open Tech there will be opportunity to further promote your sponsorship of the conference and FLOSSUK at those events. Sponsors are also featured in our yearly printed annual.

The FLOSSUK Youtube channel receives over 900 monthly views with an audience predominantly in the age range of 25-45 with a technical or open technology preference.

Sponsoring Membership

Sponsoring membership offers companies the opportunity of actively supporting our events, and makes it easier for us to further its aims and objectives.

Membership provides an ideal mechanism to make new contacts, exchange views, and debate technical matters and other areas of interest. This involvement can increase the profile of a sponsor company by its association with this leading, independent group.

Open Source Organisation, Community Sponsor: £0

  • All benefits listed above in ‘Benefits to all Sponsors’ excluding membership.
  • Ability to request space at conference events to exhibit.

General Sponsor: £250 + vat

  • All benefits listed above in ‘Benefits to all Sponsors’.
  • ¼ Page advert in Yearly Annual.

Bronze Sponsorship: £500 + vat

  • 1 ticket to conference and dinner.
  • 1 banner or poster in the sponsor’s room.
  • ½ Page advert in Yearly Annual.

Bronze sponsorship does not include a stand, but you may place literature, stickers, etc on a shared table. If you have an open source element to your organisation (OS product that is community released) we will consider making more space available.

Silver Sponsorship: £2,500 + vat

  • Table top in registration area.
  • 2 tickets to conference and dinner.
  • Half page advert in delegate A5 handbook.
  • Logo used on future conference videos (on splash screen and throughout the video).
  • 1 Page advert in Yearly Annual.
  • One article (3 pages) in Yearly Annual.
    (must be technical, but may be about a product’s approach to problem solving)

Gold Sponsorship: £5,000 + vat

  • Table top in registration area.
  • 4 tickets to conference and dinner.
  • full page advert in event delegate A5 handbook.
  • Logo used on future conference videos (on splash screen and throughout the video).
  • 2 Page advert in Yearly Annual.
  • Two articles (3 pages each) in Yearly Annual.
    (must be technical, but may be about a product’s approach to problem solving)

Platinum Sponsorship: £10,000 + vat

  • Exclusive level to a single sponsor at our events.
  • Event will be marketed as the “FLOSS UK Spring Conference 2017 in
    association with <sponsor>”.
  • Logo on all conference badges.
  • Logo used on future conference videos (on splash screen and throughout the video).
  • Table top in registration area.
  • Centre spread advert in event delegate A5 handbook.
  • Banners alongside main stage, artwork to be provided by sponsor 6 weeks prior
    to event.
  • Website will contain a full page dedicated to the sponsor.
  • 2 Page advert in Yearly Annual
    (inside front cover or back cover, or centre spread)
  • Two articles (any length) in Yearly Annual
    (must be technical, but may be about a product’s approach to problem solving)

Other Opportunities

We also encourage sponsors to offer a talk, if one of their delegates will be a technical person who is interested in a topic from our call for papers, please email office@flossuk.org​ to discuss both sponsorship and talks. We will run events in association with select sponsors.

If you wish to sponsor a separate amount, have a sponsorship proposal that is different to what has been suggested above or consider an annual sponsorship of the organisation then please do not hesitate to contact us.

We accept all contributions as an open organisation.

We should be grateful if you would contact council at the FLOSSUK Board – council@flossuk.org