[OSGeo-Fundraising] Link to project sponsors

[K S Rajan]

+1 - I do support the idea of links to the relevant pages.

FYI, India Chapter has started working on getting sponsorship or seed 
funding from domestic sources - government and industry. They may be 
either event based support or to the chapter as a whole. I am not sure 
yet, but thinking aloud, Govt., agencies may be listed only on the 
Chapter page and not willing to listed on the OSGeo.org, whereas 
Industry might.

Regards,
Rajan

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>
>> The rationale is essentially to show the outside world that there are 
>> noteworthy people giving us money and, if they dig deep enough, they 
>> can find out who.  The foundation level sponsors are clear and I 
>> don't want to dilute it further.  But if we keep the links relegated 
>> to the footer of that page, i.e. in "for more information" it can be 
>> less intrusive.  With that in mind perhaps we can avoid creating 
>> whole new 'sections' on the page, and just add links that are a 
>> couple words or more like:
>>
>> ...
>> For more information
>> Other sponsors support particular OSGeo projects: <a>GDAL/OGR</a>.  
>> To sponsor OSGeo or discuss sponsorship opportunities further, please 
>> contact:
>
>
> Tyler,
>
> I like keeping it reasonably low key.
>
>> We can deal with local chapter sponsors when the time comes, or do 
>> you think it is imminent?
>
>
> I don't think there are any chapter sponsor pages to point to yet so the
> problem isn't immediate.  But I do think we should be addressing this as
> part of the "local chapter sponsors" discussion.  That is, how much
> representation do local chapter sponsors get at the foundation level.
>
> Best regards,