These letters to prospective sponsors were prepared by Brad Myers for the UIST99 conference.
For PREVIOUS sponsors --------------------- Dear ****, Thank you for being a corporate sponsor for UIST'**. You may be thinking about getting your UIST'99 papers ready (the deadline for submissions is May 7), and I hope you will also be working on getting *** to be a sponsor for UIST'99. We certainly appreciate your support in the past, and hope that we can count on you to be a sponsor for this year as well. As you know, UIST is the ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology and is partially supported by corporate sponsors, and we would not be successful without that support. Corporate sponsor support is typically used to permit a greater number of graduate students to attend UIST at reduced fees without artificially increasing the general registration, and for student volunteers to receive complimentary registration. Corporate support can also be targeted to support a particular event or activity at the UIST Symposium. For example, you might finance the coffee breaks. Can you to arrange for *** to sponsor UIST `99 which will be held in Asheville, NC at the Grove Park Inn on November 7-10, 1999? Your support, either as direct support for students or as support for a particular event, is a highly-leveraged way to invest in the entire UIST community. In recognition of your support, the UIST Symposium will acknowledge your corporate sponsorship in the following ways: - On the conference advance program, your name logo will be used. - Your company name and logo will be included in the conference announcement in the SIGCHI bulletin - Your company name, logo and link will be included in the symposium web pages, maintained at http://www.acm.org/uist/ - We will announce the company and thank you at the opening and closing sessions of the conference. If you decide to sponsor an event, you will be given sole sponsorship of the event and it will be publicized in the advance program, the final program and at the event itself. Please feel free to contact me regarding possibilities for event sponsorship. The standard corporate sponsorship this year for students is $1,500. Should you decide to be a UIST Corporate Sponsor, we would like to have your letter of commitment soon and your check by August 15, 1999. With thanks on behalf of the entire UIST community for considering support of the conference, I remain sincerely yours, Brad A. Myers UIST'99 Corporate Sponsors Chair Human Computer Interaction Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 (412) 268-5150 FAX: (412) 268-1266 bam+@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam For NEW sponsors ---------------- Dear ***, Researchers from *** have been active participants for a number of years in UIST: the ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. You may be thinking about getting your UIST'99 papers ready (the deadline for submissions is May 7), and I hope you will also work on getting *** to be a corporate sponsor. As you know, UIST is partially supported by corporate sponsors, and we would not be successful without that support. The support from corporate sponsors is typically used to permit a greater number of graduate students to attend UIST at reduced fees without artificially increasing the general registration, and for student volunteers to receive complimentary registration. Corporate support can also be targeted to support a particular event or activity at the UIST Symposium. For example, you might finance the coffee breaks. Can you to arrange for *** to sponsor UIST `99 which will be held in Asheville, NC at the Grove Park Inn on November 7-10, 1999? Your support, either as direct support for students or as support for a particular event, is a highly-leveraged way to invest in the entire UIST community. In recognition of your support, the UIST Symposium will acknowledge your corporate sponsorship in the following ways: - On the conference advance program, your name logo will be used. - Your company name and logo will be included in the conference announcement in the SIGCHI bulletin - Your company name, logo and link will be included in the symposium web pages, maintained at http://www.acm.org/uist/ If you decide to sponsor an event, you will be given sole sponsorship of the event and it will be publicized in the advance program, the final program and at the event itself. Please feel free to contact me regarding possibilities for event sponsorship. The standard corporate sponsorship for students is $1,500. 1997 UIST sponsors were Microsoft, Xerox, Sun Microsystems, Apple, IBM, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. 1998 UIST sponsors included Interval, Microsoft, Xerox, Sun Microsystems and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. It would be wonderful if ***** could join this list! Should you decide to be a UIST Corporate Sponsor, we would like to have your letter of commitment soon and your check by August 15, 1999. With thanks on behalf of the entire UIST community for considering support of the conference, I remain sincerely yours, Brad A. Myers UIST'99 Corporate Sponsors Chair Human Computer Interaction Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 (412) 268-5150 FAX: (412) 268-1266 bam+@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam