On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 03:35:50PM -0600, Ted Gould wrote: > 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.
I only expect an initial indication of interest in renewing within the week, you're right sometimes payment can take a while. Also, even if the week passes, it doesn't mean that they can't renew later on, just that their logo won't be shown on the website in the interim. > > 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 😉 Yeah no kidding. :-) But these particular values line up well with other organization sponsorship levels, so at least will not be of surprise. > > 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.) We had $23,313 in expenses for FY2018, so we've kept the spending side up pretty well. That said, there's only so much hackfesting we can practically do in a given year, and you're right we should do some brainstorming. Funded development work (e.g. contract programming work) would be a logical thing to think about, and several of our sponsors have expressed interest here in supplying additional funds depending on what we undertake. There's a non-trivial amount of overhead work needed for doing contract management, though. It might be worthwhile for us to take a look at some of our peer projects at SFC and see how others are using their funding. Bryce _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
