<div dir="ltr"><div>At this point, it all still feels pretty nebulous. Whereas the idea of raising serious sponsorship money for the project is really exciting, the more I think about it the heavier it weighs on me. The best suggestion we've had so far would be to put that money towards funding a "maintainer" for the project -- someone willing to do mailing list surveillance and bug tracker wizardry. Beyond that, one could imagine trying to find someone to help out with documentation/tutorial writing, or even... dare I say it... marketing?</div>
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<div>Anyways, all that seems pretty far away at this point. </div>
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<div>In my mind, a couple of $500 sponsorships could easily fund OpenLayers tshirts or ski hats (my preference). </div>
<div>Five to Ten of those and we could fund or at least subsidize lodging for a bunker week.</div>
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<div>Also, in the past some people have tossed around the idea of doing an OpenLayers "conference", which would be some sort of a one or two day meeting filled with tutorials, workshops and presentations... something more users focussed. That's a story for another thread, but still, it could be another candidate for funding.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I echo Frank's comments re sponsorship levels.<br>What do you aim to fund via sponsorship? How much will that cost?<br>
<br>Basically, $500 sponsorship is too low to get much value. I expect we should be chasing 10 to 100 times that before we will be able to provide meaningful support to Openlayers infrastructure support.
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>Frank Warmerdam wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Erik Uzureau wrote:<br> <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> * Paying Sponsors: Top of page, in order of sponsorship, $500 and up get logo and text. $500 and down get just text<br>
<br></blockquote><br>Erik,<br><br>I would note that the OSGeo Project Sponsorship program does not claim to<br>support sponsorships of less than $500 - primarily because of our concern<br>that the processing overhead becomes significant in proportion to the money<br>
at this point.<br><br>As mentioned earlier, my opinion is that sponsorships of less than Silver<br>are low yield in terms of return on effort and I do not actively solicit<br>them. Sometimes folks talk about having a mechanism for individuals to<br>
contribute, but I think it is generally more effective for invidividuals<br>to contribute "in kind" in various ways, rather than in cash.<br><br>Best regards,<br> <br></blockquote><br><br>-- <br></div>Cameron Shorter<br>
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