[OpenLayers-Dev] Spending Sponsorship Money

[Erik Uzureau]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:

> Hey-
>
> Erik Uzureau wrote:
> > ...well, I think that all this was just about enough to kill any
> > momentum we may have had going there
>
> If you are referring to my comment that I didn't like the idea of
> *spending* money on t-shirts, I apologize.  It really seems like there
> are better uses of sponsorship money to me - and I liked all the others
> on that page.  If others believe that putting t-shirts at the top of the
> list is a good idea, I don't want to stop anyone.


:-) No, no, I didn't mean your email in particular. More like the thread in
general...

more in a snip


>
>
> I think we've probably gotten all the feedback that we're going to
> (easily) get on the proposal.  I think everybody likes the idea, and I
> think it will get an easy approval in a vote.
>
> I'm sure we can always tweak the language - both in the proposal and in
> our wiki page about how we plan to spend the money.
>
> Tim
>
> > with this sponsorship idea. As usual, too many conflicting ideas and too
> > little resources (resources!)
> > to implement them with. Just another day in freesoftwarelandia.:-)
> >
> > Seems to me like the best thing we can salvage from this is maybe a
> > reform of the PSC? I'll send a new thread.
> >
> > e
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org
> > <mailto:tschaub at opengeo.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hey-
> >
> >     John R. Frank wrote:
> >      >> I do want to speak up on behalf of t-shirts though!
> >      >
> >      >> don't be too hesitant to spend a bit of money on the team!
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > I completely agree.  T-shirts are a powerful tool in achieving
> >     many of the
> >      > project's goals.  I hope to see the PSC agreeing on a list of
> >     those goals
> >      > on our way to the t-shirt store.
> >      >
> >
> >     Can we have a separate thread on t-shirts (and mugs, hoodies, knit
> caps,
> >     etc)?
> >
> >     I don't disagree that t-shirts are neat.  And I think putting a link
> on
> >     our site to buy a t-shirt through some service that kicks back some
> of
> >     the money to the project is a good idea.  But I would be pretty
> >     disappointed if we *spent* (sponsorship) money on making things like
> >     t-shirts.
> >
> >     http://tinyurl.com/5vsx49
> >
> >      >
> >      > jrf
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