Aweseome, lots of good stuff here.
On Feb 9 2019, at 1:48 am, Bryce Harrington <br...@bryceharrington.org> wrote:
> 1. First, today we've gained one new Bronze Stylus sponsor, icons8.com.
> Yay!
>
😂
> 2. A second sponsor is in the works, we're just waiting on Conservancy for
> processing, and should be annnounceable soon.
>
😂😂
> 3. I have sent out renewal reminders to our current sponsors that have hit
> their expiration date. I figure we should give them a week to reply
> before retiring their entries from the sponsor page.
>
Thank you for sending out those notices. We might consider waiting a little
longer than that, or at least take a rely as reason to give them longer. I know
for many businesses the process of processing a payment and getting approved
can take more than a week.
> 4. Should we think about increasing our Bronze sponsorship level?
> Today SFC told me that they don't like to bother invoicing amounts below
> $1000, which makes things a bit difficult if our Bronze sponsors want
> invoices. So moving Bronze to $1000 may make sense just for accounting
> purposes.
>
I think that makes sense. That would set our levels to:
$1000
$2000
$5000
$10K
I really want to set them to $1250 and $2500 just so they're all even doubles,
but that's probably why I'm an engineer and not in marketing 😉
> 5. Is it time to add a Diamond level?
> When we set up the sponsorship levels, we originally included a Diamond
> level, but were not sure what amount it should be and decided we'd leave
> it out and revisit when it seemed plausible that we might get one.
> Given that we have two platinum sponsors currently, it seems plausible
> now. What do others think?
>
Frankly, I agree with your logic, but I'm still hesitant. Let's say that we
created a Diamond at $25K and someone gave it to us. What would we do with it?
I feel like with our current plans and spending we'd have a hard time using
that money. So, let's brainstorm some big ideas and figure out reasonable ways
we could grow and then put the funds behind that, instead of ending up with
money and nothing to spend it on.
(I feel like that was rambling a bit, but I can't figure out a way to be more
concise. Hopefully I got my point across.)
> 6. Do we want to increase other sponsorship levels?
> I'm guessing no, but if the board thinks we should this might be a good
> time to do so. We may want to do some TBD grandfathering of existing
> sponsors.
>
I'm good with where they are (other than making it mathematically more
exciting) but happy to listen to other's thoughts.
> 7. In order to improve our tracking of sponsors a little, I've added a
> private "Financial" sub-group to inkscape-board in gitlab, with a
> "sponsors" project under it:
>
> https://gitlab.com/inkscape-board/financial/sponsors/issues
> I figure we can use the issues tracker with each issue used for a
> separate sponsor. I'm treating the issue description as a
> semi-structured data record in YAML format, in case some day we want to
> tack on tools or integrate with other stuff. For now though it'll just
> be maintained manually, but this should hopefully permit >1 bus factor
> on sponsor management.
>
> Since Financial is a sub-group of the board, it is possible to add other
> highly trusted but non-board people to only this group. I've added
> Maren since due to her heavy involvement in sponsors and other financial
> matters in the past.
>
+1, thanks for setting this up!
> 8. I have also added a Legal sub-group to inkscape-board, with a project
> for focusing on branding issues like trademark infringement
> investigations. This is also a private group, so only visible to board
> members plus trusted non-board people. I've added Pamela Chestek and
> Denver Gingerich, who are Conservancy lawyers that have worked with us
> on some of these issues in the past.
>
+1, great!
Ted
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