[Board] next board meeting & project sponsorship

[Jeroen Ticheler]

I do support that view (as a sponsor and former board member).
Cheers,
Jeroen
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On 2 jun 2011, at 10:33, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:
>> To that agenda, I added an item on project sponsorship & donations.  The one
>> proposal there is about adding a "Bronze" level at $1000 USD.
> 
> Tim,
> 
> I'm sorry I won't make it to the meeting today.  I'm not sure what the
> background is on adding a $1000 sponsorship level, but I am not too
> keen on it for a few reasons.
> 
> 1) There is a non-trivial amount of effort involved in maintaining a
> sponsorship relationship.  At $1000 the return for effort is not so
> great.
> 
> 2) It gives organizations that was to get some value out of an
> association with OSGeo an awfully cheap way of doing so.
> There aren't that many organizations for which $3000 a year is
> too much if they are at all serious about it.  If we get four new
> bronze sponsors but two silvers drop down to bronze given
> the new "cheap" option we won't have any more money.
> 
> 3) Is does dilute the value of the higher level sponsors to some
> degree.
> 
> All that said, I'd be roughly a -0 on the issue but then I haven't
> heard the justification.
> 
> I will note there is no problem with an organization giving $1000
> to OSGeo if it wants, and the conference does usually have an
> inexpensive level of sponsorship.  Also, organizations without
> much money to contribute can assist in other ways.
> 
> Best regards,
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