[OSGeo-Fundraising] Link to project sponsors

[venka.osgeo]

Local Chapters had their own URL
(e.g. india.osgeo.org, japan.osgeo.org etc.)
when OSGeo was using Collabnet. Is this
going to be discontinued with the
migration to Drupal?

If local chapters are going to have independent
website (not as a part of OSGeo infrastructure
support from OSGeo), maybe listing local chapter
sponsors on local chapter page would make sense.
With the migration to Drupal, the local chapter
pages are on the OSGeo wiki only.

For example the China OSGeo chapter has registered
the Domain http://www.osgeo.org.cn
and are putting up contents in Chinese on their site.

Regards

Venka


K S Rajan wrote:
> +1 - I do support the idea of links to the relevant pages.
> 
> FYI, India Chapter is 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,
> 
> 
> 
> 
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