[Board] sponsor contacts

[Jody Garnett]

On 19 November 2015 at 01:10, Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:

> The idea of linking sponsor with FOSS4G events is nice but it means that
> OSGeo shall fully control the agreement with the FOSS4G organizers.
> Which to me is not the case at today.
> But correct me if I'm wrong.
>

I will clarify that qualifying events (actually thinking foss4g and local
code sprints) would be ones that any event profit is returned to OSGeo. So
sadly events like the upcoming gvSig conference would not qualify. I am
trying to think of a nice way to say that...

I agree with Jeff that we should give also space to those companies that
> already sponsor OSGeo, even if not with a subscription, by providing
> resources for the OSGeo projects. And if they are small, then they cannot
> afford high additional expenses.
>

More importantly, but off topic for this discussion, is the idea of
acknowledging organizations that contribute resources and staff directly to
open source projects. I have some thoughts about that - but for another
email thread.


> Not sure how to handle this, maybe we could give a label to these
> companies as OSGeo friend company  for 500 USD?
>

I had a note about donations, I can make it more explicit it my table. If
it really makes people happy we can offer "logo listed" as a perk for
donations of $500.
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