# SoCraTes Crete

An Open Space Unconference about the craft of making software, on the island of Crete.

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**When:** 29 Jun - 2 Jul 2023
**Where:** [OAC](https://www.oac.gr/en/) Chania, Crete, Greece
**Collective:** https://opencollective.com/socrates-crete
**Contact:** [e-mail]
**More:** https://socrates-crete.org

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>SoCraTes Crete continues the AgileCrete.org legacy

AgileCrete has always been a playground where product folks, coaches, scrum masters and developers gather to exchange and challenge ideas about all things agile since **2014**.

In **2018**, the Heraklion Software Crafters community joined this effort, adding the Software Craft and Testing (SoCraTes) flavour, in order to create a unique unconference where discussions and hack sessions will help team members better understand each other.

In **2023**, a **new SoCraTes Crete event** is being born to bring us even closer to the SoCraTes community.

> SoCraTes Crete - An Open Space Unconference about the craft of making software, on the island of Crete.

## Become an Un-Sponsor

One of the main reasons people prefer unconferences, is that the lack of sponsors in most of the events make for a more **authentic experience**. SoCraTes Crete attendees want to get away from the traditional types of conference events, as well as the traditional types of advertising from sponsors at these events. Our Un-Sponsor packages aim to be as **unobtrusive** as possible. We want the companies that will support us to do so because their mentality matches our own and that of our participants.

All finance details such as sponsors, sponsorships and expenses will be opennly available throught [our collective](https://opencollective.com/socrates-crete) in order to provide full **transparency** to all of our financial transaction.

## Participant Overview
For 2022, CoCraTes Crete is expecting ~60 participants with the majority of the being developers and DevOps. Based on past experienceTthe countries of origin have been, roughly, 59% Greece | 20% Czech Republic | 6% Germany | 5% Netherlands | 4% Poland | 1% Sweden | 1% Canada. The remaining 4% of participants have been from Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Taiwan, Cyprus and Ukraine.

## Available Types of Sponsorships

To express your interest, please contact us at `[e-mail]`. If you have an idea for a sponsorship type not listed here, we’d be very **happy to discuss** it with you!

* **Welcome Dinner Sponsor** ( 1 available | 900€ )
* **Farewell Dinner Sponsor** ( 1 available | 1000€ )
* **Traditional Cretan Night Sponsor** ( 1 available | 1250€ )
* **Branding Sponsor** ( 1 available | 1000€)

All sponsorships will be made through the [Contributions section within the SoCraTes Crete Collective](https://opencollective.com/socrates-crete#category-CONTRIBUTE) by selecting each one of the available contribution tiers.

### Welcome Dinner Sponsor

- [X] 1 available - 900€

On the night before the official SoCraTes Crete activities start, everyone is welcomed on the island, with some of the best Crete has to offer. Its food!

A large, delicious, **mouth-watering Cretan-style dinner**, based largely on the fresh vegetables that one can easily get hold of, on the island, both in high quality, as well as in abundance.
Your company will cover a pre-set amount that goes towards the bill, so that you don’t have to worry about how many people attend. The remainder of the bill will be equally split between everyone else.

Isn’t this kind of awareness for your company much more engaging than a plain old roll-up stand up that you would post up, for everyone to walk past and ignore?


> At the same time, it is the perfect opportunity to have all the SoCraTes Crete participants drink a glass of local wine to your company’s name, honouring your generosity

#### Your sponsorship benefits

* A toast to your company during the dinner, and mentions in announcements prior to the dinner itself.
* Your logo and link on the socrates-crete.org home page, on display until December 31st 2023.
* Your information brochure (size up to A4) on an information table in the central unconference room, throughout SoCraTes Crete 2023 event.
* Your social media account and website mentioned in „Thank you“ toot by @socrates_crete.
* Permanent mention & link (including up-dates) on our Sponsorship Hall of Fame page at socrates-crete.org and [our Open Collective's page](https://opencollective.com/socrates-crete).

### Farewell Dinner Sponsor

- [X] 1 available - 1000€

SoCraTes Crete is an incredibly energizing event! The constant interaction with like-minded individuals, the free exchange of ideas, information and experience between all the participants leaves you with what resembles a withdrawal syndrome, when it’s all finished.

One last night with the delicious Cretan food, with the ample portions, **intense flavours** from the highquality **raw ingredients** and the refreshing wine that lightens the mood.

The farewell dinner is the last opportunity to talk to people you didn’t get a chance to in the previous days, discover new collaboration / job opportunities, or simply argue about the importance of life, the universe and everything.

Your sponsorship of the farewell dinner will leave SoCraTes Crete participants with the **sweetest taste** and **fondest memories** just before they head home.

That’s a definite reason for them to keep your company’s name in their thumbs-up list! Your company will cover a pre-set amount that goes towards the bill, so that you don’t have to worry about how many people attend. The remainder of the bill will be equally split between everyone else.


> Think of the night before you go home from an amazing holiday with a good group of friends. This, is what the farewell dinner is.

#### Your sponsorship benefits

* A toast to your company during the dinner, and mentions in announcements prior to the dinner itself.
* Your logo and link on the socrates-crete.org home page, on display until December 31st 2023.
* Your information brochure (size up to A4) on an information table in the central unconference room, throughout SoCraTes Crete 2023 event.
* Your social media account and website mentioned in „Thank you“ toot by @socrates_crete.
* Permanent mention & link (including up-dates) on our Sponsorship Hall of Fame page at socrates-crete.org and [our Open Collective's page](https://opencollective.com/socrates-crete).

### Traditional Cretan Night Sponsor

- [X] 1 available - 1250€

If you’ve ever happened to attend a Cretan feast, you will know it’s a **night to remember**!

Crete has its own traditional music that is different from the rest of Greece, and all the Cretans – young & old alike – are very much into this type of **entertainment**. Cretan music always accompanies the different Cretan dances, so the feasts are always held outdoors (re-member, this is the Cretan summer we’re talking about) and there is always a big space in the middle to allow for a **big circle of people** to dance to the music.

We want to bring this experience to the SoCraTes Crete participants, so your sponsorship would cover the costs for the **Cretan feast** plus the cost for a small **Cretan band** to entertain our guests!

Your company will cover a pre-set amount that goes towards the total, so that you don’t have to worry about exactly how many people attend. The remainder of the bill will be equally split between everyone else.

Imagine how much fun your company would be giving everyone - an obvious reason for participants to remember your company name fondly!

> Everyone is welcome to join in and Cretans very much appreciate and take pride in teaching tourists how to dance!

#### Your sponsorship benefits

* Your logo and link on the socrates-crete.org home page, on display until December 31st 2023.
* Your information brochure (size up to A4) on an information table in the central unconference room, throughout SoCraTes Crete 2023 event.
* Your social media account and website mentioned in „Thank you“ toot by @socrates_crete.
* Permanent mention & link (including up-dates) on our Sponsorship Hall of Fame page at socrates-crete.org and [our Open Collective's page](https://opencollective.com/socrates-crete).

### Branding Sponsor

- [X] 1 available - 1000€

If you came here looking for ticket discounts for sponsors, group pricing, etc., we’re sorry to say you won’t find that here. But please don’t leave just yet. Give us a chance to explain!

Typically, conferences would offer group discounts, to give incentive to more people from a specific company to join.

However, those conferences exist to make money and SoCraTes Crete does not.

In fact, as a group of **volunteers** who help organise the event, we make no income. SoCraTes Crete itself receives no money. The event is entirely **funded by its participants**, and all money goes directly to our venue, to cover for meals, catering, the conference rooms and facilities, accommodation, etc.

With no profit, we cannot afford to give much back to the participants. No t-shirts, no **freebies**, no SoCraTes-Crete branded **souvenirs** to remind participants of all the **great moments**!

This is where you come in! Our branding sponsor will cover a set amount, which the org team will put towards purchasing the “usual” freebies you would expect from a conference. Of course, since SoCraTes Crete is an unconference, they will be a little un-usual!

#### Your sponsorship benefits

* Your logo and link on the socrates-crete.org home page, on display until December 31st 2023.
* Your information brochure (size up to A4) on an information table in the central unconference room, throughout SoCraTes Crete 2023 event.
* Your social media account and website mentioned in „Thank you“ toot by @socrates_crete.
* Permanent mention & link (including up-dates) on our Sponsorship Hall of Fame page at socrates-crete.org and [our Open Collective's page](https://opencollective.com/socrates-crete).

## How to sponsor

All sponsorships will be made through the [Contributions section within the SoCraTes Crete Collective](https://opencollective.com/socrates-crete#category-CONTRIBUTE) by selecting each one of the available contribution tiers. More details about the Fincancial contributions can be found at the [Open Collective Documentations](https://docs.opencollective.foundation/how-it-works/financial-contributions), [the financial contributions flow and](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/financial-contributors/payments#financial-contribution-flow) the [FAQ page](https://docs.opencollective.foundation/faq/contributions-faq).

For any assistance, please contact us at `[e-mail]`. If you also, have an idea for a sponsorship type not listed here, we’d be very **happy to discuss** it with you!

## Sponsorship Tiers Comparison

| Benefit | Socrates | Thales | Aristotle | Plato | Hypatia | Welcome Dinner <br/> (only 1) | Farewell Dinner <br/> (only 1) | Cretan Feast <br/> (only 1)|
| :- | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: |
| Logo on OpenCollective <div class="tooltip"> ℹ️ <span class="tooltiptext">Your logo displayed on the SoCraTes Crete 2023 page on OpenCollective</span> </div> | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Logo on website <div class="tooltip"> ℹ️ <span class="tooltiptext">Your logo on the socrates-crete.org home page, on display until December 31st 2023.</span> </div> | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Link on website <div class="tooltip"> ℹ️ <span class="tooltiptext">A rel="external" (DoFollow) link on the socrates-crete.org home page, on display until December 31st 2023.</span> </div> | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Social media posts <div class="tooltip"> ℹ️ <span class="tooltiptext">Your social media account and website mentioned in "Thank you" tweets/toots by @socrates_crete.</span> </div> | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Brochures outside entrance <div class="tooltip"> ℹ️ <span class="tooltiptext">Your information brochure (size up to A4) on an information table in the central unconference room, throughout SoCraTes Crete 2023 event.</span> </div> | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Permalink in hall of fame <div class="tooltip"> ℹ️ <span class="tooltiptext">Permanent mention & link on our Sponsorship Hall of Fame page at socrates-crete.org and our Open Collective page.</span> </div> | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Toast to your company <div class="tooltip"> ℹ️ <span class="tooltiptext">A toast to your company's good name during the dinner, and mentions in announcements prior to the dinner itself.</span> </div> | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Photo of toast posted on social media <div class="tooltip"> ℹ️ <span class="tooltiptext">A photo of the toast to your company's good name during the dinner posted to our social media, for your team to retweet/boost.</span> </div> | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Amount | €100 | €200 | €300 | €500 | €800 | €1300 | €2100 | €3400 |

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