[Board] Fwd: Bronze sponsors who seek SEO improvements

[Jody Garnett]

I would like the board or marketing committee to direct me in that, I
personally like that idea.
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:27 AM Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> 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?
>
> >
> > --
> > 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.
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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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Jody Garnett
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