[OpenLayers-Dev] Sponsorship Credits

[Tim Schaub]

Reading this thread has cost the project more than $500 in lost labor.

(I am in support of sponsorship, but agree that we should not take time 
chasing or managing $500 donations.)

Erik Uzureau wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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