About Sponsorship for local OSGeo Chapters

[venka.osgeo]

Dear Board and Tyler,

The Japan OSGeo Chapter has received the inquiry from Ouyo-Gijutsu KK ( 
Applied Technology Corp.) about wanting to be a sponsor of OSGeo.org
or Osgeo-Japan and requested for clarification on the following matters.

The company representive has asked about the present status of sponsors
and requested to know why sponsor names (Autodesk?)are not
appearing on the OSGeo Web site. Apart from that their other basic 
quaetions about the sponsorship for their budgeting purpose are follows;

1  Will OSGeo Japan Chapter call for Japan domestic sponsor separately
as a part of OSGeo.org sponsorship ?
2  Is the local sponsorship scheme same as OSGeo.org sponsorship ?
3  When OSGeo sponsor page will be available on the web site ?
4  Will OSGeo sponsors be invited to next FOSS4G Conference ?
5 Can the sponsor specify the purpose for which the sponsorship
fee can be used?

Advice for the board and Tyler and support for local sponsors is
highly appreciated.

Additional information that the proposed sponsors have provided is
as below

> They want to modify / source code of MapGuide Open Source to support PNG8
> compressed image data as well as current PNG24 for the mobile devices as a
> MGOS client. They have already proposed their idea to mobile
> telecommunication provider and their customer welcomed. Thus, they want to
> start the development and make an appeal their activities and contribution
> to FOSS4G to public to get more business and make their customer confident.

I mark CC to Mr. Mori Toru (Japan OSGeo Chapter Representative) and Mr. 
Noda (Board Member of Japan OSGeo Chapter Representative) for their
information.

Kind regards

Venka