[OpenLayers-Dev] PSC Vote on Sponsorship Doc

[Erik Uzureau]

Also, FWIW, we have our first sponsor lined up and ready to donate, as soon
as we can come to an agreement on these things.

It's for a participation that chris schmidt and I made in a survey for some
research about successful open source projects...
they want to donate to us but don't know how. It's a relatively minor sum,
but it will be our first, exciting donation.

Erik

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Erik Uzureau <euzuro at gmail.com> wrote:

> (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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