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<p>+1 on "subject to board approval", but I think that it is
important to provide guidelines on what is and is not acceptable.
Otherwise it makes it very hard for future boards to assess
whether a sponsor is suitable or not. You don't want to be
publicly discussing whether a company is suitable or not which
potentially may be damaging their reputation (something you don't
want to be doing to sponsors).</p>
<p>Possible text:</p>
<p>"Acceptance of sponsorship is at the discretion of the OSGeo
Board, who will ensure alignment with OSGeo's vision and
protection of OSGeo's reputation."</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/01/2017 5:26 AM, Eli Adam wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Eli Adam <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us"><eadam@co.lincoln.or.us></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
Has the Marketing Committee decided on whether OSGeo Sponsors must be
at least in some tangential way related to open source or geospatial
software? I think that we should only accept relevant sponsors and
have the option to decline sponsorships.
QGIS has a good example of a policy,
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html#qgis-sponsorship-program">http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html#qgis-sponsorship-program</a>
(at the bottom):
Warning
Acceptance of sponsorship offers is at the discretion of the QGIS PSC.
We reserve the right to decline offers of sponsorship if the
sponsoring organisation or party seems to be at odds with the ethos of
our project. For example offers from marketing companies that have
nothing to do with GIS / spatial services, or offers where we have
reason to believe the presence of the sponsors logo and marketing
materials on our site and other materials will degrade the experience
of our users will be declined.
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<pre wrap="">This is a rather bold and clear policy. A simple policy (if we don't
anticipate problems) could be as short as "...subject to approval."</pre>
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Cameron Shorter
M +61 419 142 254</pre>
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