[Qgis-psc] Removing past sponsors from https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Paolo,

That is a good idea. Names/Location/Country only, no link, no logo.

Thanks,
Andreas

On 15 September 2018 at 09:26, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> maybe we could have a list with only the names, not the logos nor links,
> for the expired sponsors. I think it is good for us to show that a lot of
> organizations trusted us, and thee name only does not give them too much
> visibility, so this could gently push them towards renewing.
>
> All the best.
>
> Il 09/14/2018 05:09 PM, Marco Bernasocchi ha scritto:
>
> What about creating 2 tabs on that page for past and current sponsors ?
>
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 16:38 Richard Duivenvoorde, <rdmailings at duif.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Mmm, the list comes from the atomfeeds which we pull from live projecta
>> every hour or so:
>>
>> https://www.qgis.org/feeds/qgissponsors.atom
>>
>> https://www.qgis.org/feeds/qgispastsponsors.atom
>>
>> Some javascript creates the lists from those feeds, and I'm pretty sure
>> that at that time we said that we really wanted the 'Past Sponsors'
>>
>> I even hacked this into projecta to make that possible:
>> https://github.com/kartoza/prj.app/commit/c3313f2d86f9d07b4ed81527dbfe95
>> f5f44b0ec2
>>
>> I'm ok with hiding that one, but it would be better if we discussed this
>> a little earlier
>>
>> So: hide that list? Old sponsors do not get any credit anymore?
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> On 09/14/2018 04:21 PM, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
>> > Also Agree with this.
>> >
>> > I really needed we can pua a small link to a sponsors archive page. but
>> > since the sponsor is time limited, I think we could remove this
>> >
>> > ciao
>> >
>> > Marco
>> >
>> >
>> > On 14.09.2018 14:53, Anita Graser wrote:
>> >> Thanks Andreas, sounds reasonable to me! We don't need to link to any
>> >> past sponsors. They still have links in the past changelogs anyway.
>> >> I looked at the website, but I don't know where the sponsor feed comes
>> >> from https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/blob/master/
>> source/site/about/sponsorship.rst
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Anita
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:44 PM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net
>> >> <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     Hi,
>> >>
>> >>     We still publish an incredibly long list of past sponsors
>> >>     at https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html
>> >>
>> >>     I would suggest to get rid of all expired sponsors.
>> >>
>> >>     Imagine if some company sponsored back in 2012 and only paid
>> >>     bronze once (do not renew) - they are still listed in our sponsors
>> >>     list and receive linking from a relatively high-profile website. I
>> >>     think that it would be better to remove the old sponsors. It would
>> >>     increase the incentive to renew past sponsorships.
>> >>
>> >>     If you all agree - who could do that?
>> >>
>> >>     Thanks,
>> >>
>> >>     Andreas
>> >>
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