Also, FWIW, we have our first sponsor lined up and ready to donate, as soon as we can come to an agreement on these things.<br><br>It's for a participation that chris schmidt and I made in a survey for some research about successful open source projects... <br>
they want to donate to us but don't know how. It's a relatively minor sum, but it will be our first, exciting donation.<br><br>Erik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Erik Uzureau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:euzuro@gmail.com">euzuro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(is this a +1, then? :-)<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Christopher Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crschmidt@metacarta.com" target="_blank">crschmidt@metacarta.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:39:30PM -0600, Erik Uzureau wrote:<br>
> The last thing I want to do in the world is to slow this process down any<br>
> more than it has already been slowed, but I just gave this doc another full<br>
> read over and I saw this:<br>
><br>
> Platinum sponsors may also have their logo placed directly on the<br>
> OpenLayers home page.<br>
><br>
> ...which I don't think I'd seen before. Maybe I just didn't process it. Is<br>
> everyone else aware of this?<br>
<br>
</div>I'm aware of it, and left it in explicitly. If someone is giving us the<br>
equivilant of a part-time salary for someone, we can give them a bit<br>
more credit. Looking at our pages, I would say that such a thing would<br>
probably work out fine in the footer of the page -- in fact, in that<br>
way, it could be there across the <a href="http://openlayers.org" target="_blank">openlayers.org</a> website, a somewhat<br>
valuable position imho.<br>
<br>
There is the question, of course, of what to do if we get so many<br>
platinum sponsors that our homepage starts to look crowded by showing<br>
their logos. To which I respond: "Ahahahaha. Right."<br>
<br>
More seriously, I'd say we can easily fit 3-4 200px wide logos across<br>
the bottom of the page, or along the right hand side of the page under<br>
the Map near the OSGeo logo without seeming cluttered. If we really get<br>
to that point and still feel like we need more differentiation, we'll<br>
have *$100k* in the bank. I'm sure that we can find *some* way to design<br>
the site to accomodate in that money :)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Christopher Schmidt<br>
MetaCarta<br>
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