boring tales of corporate sponsorship

[Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxx>]

> > and to richard's point - the Wire was not a "financial"
> > sponsor,
>
> You mean you gave them free advertising?
>
> > and Cycling '74's $$ contribution was minimal
> > (though the on-site support and presence of gregory taylor
> > was phenomenal
>
> more free advertising?

While I'm sure that the truth would be much more
boring than all this eyebrow wiggling, here goes:
We donated some money. Since nearly all of us
at Cycling '74 don't really care much for corporate
sponsorship things, we did so with the request that
mention of our aid be minimal [i.e., no ads]. I went
down and acted like any other staff volunteer. We
didn't say anything to anyone during the festival, and
I believe that the extent of my presence and involvement
as a Cycling '74 guy was limited to wearing my '74'
T-shirt at the end of the week, answering Max/MSP
questions asked by anyone who found out I was a
Cycling '74 person [my badge said only, "Staff"],
and passing really pleasant part of an afternoon with
Steve Roden demonstrating one-on-one why something
my company makes and sells might NOT really be a
good idea for him to use. I would have done exactly
the same thing with Janek Schaefer, but time didn't
allow it.

If there was any kind of buzz about what we make,
it probably came from the most obvious and important
place - knowing that as diverse a bunch of people as
Carl Stone, Ernst Karel, Michael Schumacher, Sutekh,
Kit Clayton, Randall Jones, and Monolake all had the
same basic stuff sitting on their laptop while all that
idiosyncratic noise came pouring out (a good working
example of my contention that MSP doesn't sound
like anything but its users, BTW). And you wouldn't
know that if you didn't go up and look or know what
to look for.

There may be ways I wish I could have been of
better service to the hard-working folks I worked
alongside [reading the Alesis XT ADAT manual in
detail being one of them]. I honestly doubt that I
could have kept much lower of a corporate profile.
The focus was on the work and the communal
experience of the week. An inability or lack of
inclination to imagine such a thing isn't really my
issue.

gregory
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