[Fundraising] Foundation Sponsorship

[Tyler Mitchell]

I'll let Dave comment first, since much of this content is just  
reworked from his original :)

Tyler

On 13-Nov-06, at 8:59 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> As you probably noticed, I made many edits today to this page.  I  
>> looked at it as an outward focused document and less of an  
>> internal document for review.  Probably needs at least 1 more read  
>> through by each of us.  I think we could still tighten up the Why  
>> Sponsor OSGeo section, but it gets awkward since most of them  
>> overlap in some way.  I removed one point that I thought was a  
>> duplicate of point 4.
>> Hope it looks okay - let's discuss.
>
> Tyler,
>
> I think this sentance "Many companies, non-profit organizations and
> government agencies use OSGeo technologies in their day-to-day work  
> and
> would be substantially different if these tools were not  
> available." is
> ackward.  The organizations would be substantially different?  Perhaps
> you mean they would be disadvantaged or negatively impacted if these
> tools were not available?
>
> I have to admit I don't find much difference between "Organizations  
> Depend
> on OSGeo Software" and "Organization or Community Adoption of OSGeo  
> Software".
>
> What is the distinction between the Associate Sponsor's "Sponsor is  
> promoted
> on OSGeo Sponsors Web page, with link to sponsor's Web site" and the
> Supporting Sponsor's "Promotional Space on a personalized OSGeo  
> Sponsor Page
> (content subject to OSGeo approval)"?
>
> I'm not sure that there is much point in using "tmitchell at  
> osgeo.org"
> when your real address is in the mailto:.  The mailto is more  
> likely to
> be harvested for spam purposes.
>
> Despite these nits, I'm quite happy with the page.
>
> Best regards,
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