[OpenLayers-Dev] Sponsorship Credits

Paul Spencer pspencer at dmsolutions.ca
Sun Oct 19 22:27:16 EDT 2008


Erik,

this seems pretty reasonable to me.  I like that you originally picked  
out recognizing contributions other than monetary and that the credits  
page would include this additional information above and beyond pure  
sponsorship.

Cheers

Paul

On 19-Oct-08, at 1:55 PM, Erik Uzureau wrote:

> One issue that Chris and I talked about in person on friday was how  
> to deal with the sponsorship credits page.
>
> In an earlier mail, chris sent this link to the GDAL project's  
> sponsorship page:
>
>
>  http://gdal.org/credits.html
>
>
> ..which we both thought was a pretty reasonable, simple model we  
> could follow. This sort of thing has helped us to bootstrap things  
> in the past.
>
>
> In live discussion, chris and I managed to chisel it down to the  
> following breakdown:
>
>  * Paying Sponsors: Top of page, in order of sponsorship, $500 and  
> up get logo and text. $500 and down get just text
>
>  * Contributors: Individual/Company Name and link and brief  
> description of contributions to project. NO LOGO
>    * Individual Contributors: Any individual contributor who has  
> produced a  significant feature in trunk.
>    * Corporate Contributor: Any corporate contributor who has  
> produced a significant feature in trunk.
>
>
> ----
>
>  * we distinguish between individual and corporate based on ICLA vs.  
> CCLA
>
>  * PSC votes on inclusion/removal/edit of all sponsor/contributor  
> information
>
>
>
>
> Based on the above information, we are probably at the point where  
> we could start our own openlayers.org/credits.html page. Although we  
> have no sponsors currently, I believe we can get things going by  
> filling out the contributors section. I can get started on that when  
> I'm back to mexico next week if no one else is interested.
>
> At any rate, please reply with thoughts/comments on this.
>
> Erik
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