[OpenLayers-Dev] Sponsorship Credits

[Cameron Shorter]

I echo Frank's comments re sponsorship levels.
What do you aim to fund via sponsorship? How much will that cost?

Basically, $500 sponsorship is too low to get much value. I expect we 
should be chasing 10 to 100 times that before we will be able to provide 
meaningful support to Openlayers infrastructure support.

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Erik Uzureau wrote:
>   
>>  * Paying Sponsors: Top of page, in order of sponsorship, $500 and up 
>> get logo and text. $500 and down get just text
>>     
>
> Erik,
>
> I would note that the OSGeo Project Sponsorship program does not claim to
> support sponsorships of less than $500 - primarily because of our concern
> that the processing overhead becomes significant in proportion to the money
> at this point.
>
> As mentioned earlier, my opinion is that sponsorships of less than Silver
> are low yield in terms of return on effort and I do not actively solicit
> them.   Sometimes folks talk about having a mechanism for individuals to
> contribute, but I think it is generally more effective for invidividuals
> to contribute "in kind" in various ways, rather than in cash.
>
> Best regards,
>   


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