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Requests are reviewed approximately weekly by the Developer Events Team. This team is made up of representatives from Mozilla's Developer Relations, Developer Tools, MDN, and Events teams.
== How is will my request going to be reviewed? ==
We have established this set of criteria by which we evaluate all event support requests:
* '''Relevance to Mozilla goals''': It helps if you can show a relationship between your event and achieving [[DevRel|Developer Relations]] 2015 goals. We have a set amount of funding every year, and we need to make sure that our dollars are spent on events that are supporting the goals we have set for the year.
* '''Mozilla participation''':Money alone doesn't represent Mozilla very well, so we '''only''' sponsor events where members of the Mozilla community (volunteers or staff) are participating. They could be attending, speaking, organizing, or participating in some other way, as long as they are at the event in person. A sponsorship needs to have one or more Mozillians at the event to engage with attendees about why Mozilla is supporting this event, how we can work together, what cool new things is Mozilla offering, etc.<i>Note: If you have no Mozillians involved in your event, we are happy to help find someone to speak, attend, sit on a panel, etc., but this does NOT guarantee a sponsorship. Finding Mozilla participants is judged independently of sponsorship opportunities.</i> * '''No pay-to-speak''': While having a Mozillian speak at participate in your event helps increase the likelihood of is necessary for getting sponsorship, at the same time, we don't pay for sponsored speaking slots, or accept speaking slots that are contingent on sponsorship. We prefer that Mozilla speakers be invited or accepted on the quality of their presentations and the interest the attendees have in what they have to say, not because Mozilla has paid to put someone in front of an audience. <i>NoteWe believe this policy: If you ** is equitable to conference organizers seeking Mozilla speakers** is fair to other speakers who don't have no Mozillians involved the means to pay for a speaking opportunity** helps us gauge interest in your event, the topics and products we are happy to help find someone might propose to speak, attend, sit on a panel, etc., but this does NOT guarantee a sponsorship. Finding about** maintains the credibility of Mozilla participants is judged independently of sponsorship opportunities.</i>speakers with audiences
* '''Code of conduct''': In keeping with Mozilla's [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ culture of inclusiveness], we strongly encourage event organizers seeking sponsorship or speaker to create, publish, and enforce a code of conduct for their event participants. The bigger your event, the stricter we will be about this requirement. However, small events can also benefit from explicit guidelines for respectful behavior. You can find examples and guidance for writing a code of conduct on the [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment Geek feminism wiki]. We unfortunately have had a few of our speakers mistreated at past events, and even worse, the organizers did not intervene. Our Mozillians are awesome, and they all deserve to be treated with respect.
=Sponsorship Follow-up=
If Mozilla sponsors your event, please be aware that we will ask you for follow-up information after the event, such as number of attendees and social media reach. The purpose of this follow-up is to help us track the effectiveness of our sponsorships and make decisions for the future. You're probably collecting this information anyway.
