sponsor SpeakFreely indefinitely

[chadwhitacre]

We sponsored last October (#334) and also last month. We can't afford the list price for sponsorship ($500), but Kit gave us a (drastic) discount last time (I paid personally) and we might be able to work something out with him on a more permanent basis. I don't how to quantify this and calculate ROI, but it does seem to be good exposure for us. The speakers are pretty high-profile, it gets us into the Pittsburgh scene, and it helps us register on social media.

What is this worth to us? What's our marketing budget?

[chadwhitacre]

Next one is a week from today:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/speak-freely-wjohn-fetterman-tickets-22586328316

[chadwhitacre]

I don't know how to decide this. Hence, #554.

[chadwhitacre]

Maybe we frame this as a Traction experiment?

[chadwhitacre]

I ran into Kit the other day. I'm not gonna push our luck on this one. I may go as an individual (possibly with the penny punch), but I'm not gonna make a big deal out of Gratipay being a sponsor.