[gdal-dev] Renaming Sponsorships tiers to align with NumFOCUS ones

[Kurt Schwehr]

+1 KurtS

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 1:10 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> PSC,
>
> We've had a request from NumFOCUS to align the titles of the GDAL
> sponsorship tiers with the ones of NumFOCUS, to limit the risk of
> confusion, which was one topic discussed during last meeting.
>
> For reference, the ones of NumFOCUS are at
> https://numfocus.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor, so to get consistent,
> our new levels would renamed as:
>
> - Gold (previously Platinum): 50k
>
> - Silver (previously Gold): 25k
>
> - Bronze (previously Silver): 10k
>
> This will help especially for actors that already have a relationship
> with NumFOCUS and can be confused by the current non-alignment.
>
> NumFOCUS confirmed that companies that offer a sponsorship designated to
> GDAL will receive both GDAL's benefits and NumFOCUS ones under that tier
> (if they don't already benefit from NumFOCUS sponsorship at a higher
> level because already sponsoring other NumFOCUS projects)
>
> I'm +1 for that change. I don't anticipate sponsors to mind about that
> change. The different tiers and relative positioning with other actors
> is probably what matters to them, more than the absolute title of the
> tier. Anyway, we'll communicate that change to the current sponsors, and
> adapt our own documentation.
>
> Even
>
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