[OpenLayers-Dev] Sponsorship Credits

[Erik Uzureau]

At this point, it all still feels pretty nebulous. Whereas the idea of
raising serious sponsorship money for the project is really exciting, the
more I think about it the heavier it weighs on me. The best suggestion we've
had so far would be to put that money towards funding a "maintainer" for the
project -- someone willing to do mailing list surveillance and bug tracker
wizardry. Beyond that, one could imagine trying to find someone to help out
with documentation/tutorial writing, or even... dare I say it... marketing?

Anyways, all that seems pretty far away at this point.

In my mind, a couple of $500 sponsorships could easily fund OpenLayers
tshirts or ski hats (my preference).
Five to Ten of those and we could fund or at least subsidize lodging for a
bunker week.

Also, in the past some people have tossed around the idea of doing an
OpenLayers "conference", which would be some sort of a one or two day
meeting filled with tutorials, workshops and presentations... something more
users focussed. That's a story for another thread, but still, it could be
another candidate for funding.

E

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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