Also, FWIW, we have our first sponsor lined up and ready to donate, as soon as we can come to an agreement on these things.
It's for a participation that chris schmidt and I made in a survey for some research about successful open source projects... they want to donate to us but don't know how. It's a relatively minor sum, but it will be our first, exciting donation. Erik On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Erik Uzureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (is this a +1, then? :-) > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Christopher Schmidt < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:39:30PM -0600, Erik Uzureau wrote: >> > The last thing I want to do in the world is to slow this process down >> any >> > more than it has already been slowed, but I just gave this doc another >> full >> > read over and I saw this: >> > >> > Platinum sponsors may also have their logo placed directly on the >> > OpenLayers home page. >> > >> > ...which I don't think I'd seen before. Maybe I just didn't process it. >> Is >> > everyone else aware of this? >> >> I'm aware of it, and left it in explicitly. If someone is giving us the >> equivilant of a part-time salary for someone, we can give them a bit >> more credit. Looking at our pages, I would say that such a thing would >> probably work out fine in the footer of the page -- in fact, in that >> way, it could be there across the openlayers.org website, a somewhat >> valuable position imho. >> >> There is the question, of course, of what to do if we get so many >> platinum sponsors that our homepage starts to look crowded by showing >> their logos. To which I respond: "Ahahahaha. Right." >> >> More seriously, I'd say we can easily fit 3-4 200px wide logos across >> the bottom of the page, or along the right hand side of the page under >> the Map near the OSGeo logo without seeming cluttered. If we really get >> to that point and still feel like we need more differentiation, we'll >> have *$100k* in the bank. I'm sure that we can find *some* way to design >> the site to accomodate in that money :) >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Christopher Schmidt >> MetaCarta >> > >
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