[Board] Fwd: Bronze sponsors who seek SEO improvements

[Eli Adam]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is now June and I am removing our last SEO sponsor entry.

Can SEO sponsors also be removed from the previous sponsors section?

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> Jody Garnett
>
> On 6 April 2017 at 05:42, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I double checked, two of the organizations is question have now been
>> removed; the last one get's removed in June.
>>
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>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 5 April 2017 at 23:54, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am waiting for their year to be up before removing, they did sponsor
>>> for a year and we took their money.
>>> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:49 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Andreas,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi OSGEO board / officers,
>>>>> I would like to investigate about the OSGEO sponsors policy. Especially
>>>>> in the light that we had and have similar requests from "dubious" sponsors
>>>>> in the QGIS project. Also maybe to align our policies.
>>>>> I am relating to the bronze sponsors listed at
>>>>> http://www.osgeo.org/content/sponsorship/sponsors.html
>>>>>
>>>>> ChameleonJohn
>>>>> Apps4Rent
>>>>> Dealslands
>>>>>
>>>>> These companies are not active in the geospatial domain. The sole
>>>>> purpose of their sponsorship is to get search engine optimizations by
>>>>> getting increased trust from a popular Open Source project. They are willing
>>>>> to pay such small sponsorships and get an awful lot of value from it. It is
>>>>> simply advertising for their business that has nothing to do with "geo".
>>>>>
>>>>> I would suggest the OSGEO board to not accept such sponsorships in the
>>>>> future and remove the existing "dubious" ones completely, once they expire.
>>>>> Since they are 2016 sponsors - maybe they can be removed already?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for reminding us about this issue! You'll be happy to know
>>>> that the OSGeo board already voted to not accept this kind of sponsors
>>>> anymore, see
>>>> https://www.loomio.org/d/RmDdysre/update-sponsorship-instructions-to-restrict-search-engine-optimization-companies
>>>>
>>>> Concerning removing 2016's questionable sponsors, maybe Jody knows if
>>>> removal now is ok with our agreements.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Anita
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Jody Garnett
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