[OpenLayers-Dev] PSC Vote on Sponsorship Doc

[Erik Uzureau]

(is this a +1, then? :-)

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Christopher Schmidt <
crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:39:30PM -0600, Erik Uzureau wrote:
> > The last thing I want to do in the world is to slow this process down any
> > more than it has already been slowed, but I just gave this doc another
> full
> > read over and I saw this:
> >
> >  Platinum sponsors may also have their logo placed directly on the
> >     OpenLayers home page.
> >
> > ...which I don't think I'd seen before. Maybe I just didn't process it.
> Is
> > everyone else aware of this?
>
> I'm aware of it, and left it in explicitly. If someone is giving us the
> equivilant of a part-time salary for someone, we can give them a bit
> more credit. Looking at our pages, I would say that such a thing would
> probably work out fine in the footer of the page -- in fact, in that
> way, it could be there across the openlayers.org website, a somewhat
> valuable position imho.
>
> There is the question, of course, of what to do if we get so many
> platinum sponsors that our homepage starts to look crowded by showing
> their logos. To which I respond: "Ahahahaha. Right."
>
> More seriously, I'd say we can easily fit 3-4 200px wide logos across
> the bottom of the page, or along the right hand side of the page under
> the Map near the OSGeo logo without seeming cluttered. If we really get
> to that point and still feel like we need more differentiation, we'll
> have *$100k* in the bank. I'm sure that we can find *some* way to design
> the site to accomodate in that money :)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>
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