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

[Frank Warmerdam]

+1 FrankW

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 5:59 PM Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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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