[GRASS-PSC] Sponsoring program

[Yann Chemin]

I am OK with the "former donors" page, with a (past years) date of funding
and a thank you note from GRASS.


On 1 April 2014 13:21, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Moritz Lennert <
> mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>
>> On 01/04/14 09:24, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
>>
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>>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Moritz Lennert
>>> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>         I suggest to create a section in the website for long
>>>         term/historical
>>>         sponsors, and list the new sponsors in the web page only if they
>>>         donate
>>>         / contribute regularly (Say, once a year - I would indicate a
>>>         certain
>>>         lower threshold for the amount). Event-based donors and
>>> micro-donors
>>>         will be listed into the wiki page of the event.
>>>
>>>
>>>     That would mean that someone who gives a large amount, but only
>>>     once, will not be mentioned anywhere ? I think that sometimes
>>>     companies might want to pay back in a one-shot for the use they made
>>>     of a free software, but without committing for long term
>>>     sponsorship. I think that they should also be mentioned somewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree that they should be mentioned somewhere, but probably keeping
>>> them in the page of the sponsors for ever is not the best choice. Maybe
>>> in a separate section?
>>>
>>
>> I guess a yearly revision of the list of sponsors would not be too much
>> work, or ?
>>
>
> Thus that's more or less what I meant in the first place: a donor remains
> in the "sponsors" page only if donates regularly (eg. every year),
> otherwise it's moved to a list of "former donors" (which I believe is
> necessary to keep track of, for transparency and history).
>
>>
>>
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> --
> Best regards,
>
> Dr. Margherita DI LEO
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