[Board] Fwd: Bronze sponsors who seek SEO improvements

[Jody Garnett]

Boundless has come through with sponsorship; need to draft a press release.

I have not heard back from Astun yet; will check in.

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Jody Garnett

On 6 April 2017 at 05:55, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have sent out a reminder to Astun and Boundless who are scheduled to
> renew this month.
>
> Many of the foss4g and foss4g-e sponsors qualify to be listed on our
> website, I do not know if it would be rude to contact them and ask if they
> would like to be cross-posted?
>
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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/RmDdy
>>>> sre/update-sponsorship-instructions-to-restrict-search-engin
>>>> e-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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