On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 22:09, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: >> >> OTOH, I have wonder if it would be fair to our current Advisory Board >> members to give other companies paying less the same marketing benefit, >> can we consider that the seat in AB is worth -say- $4000 or should we >> limit the marketing benefits of our possible smaller companies? > > You want to lower ad board fees? > > $10K is a ridiculously small amount of money for many of the companies > funding the foundation. At this price level, we already have a small budget. > We might want to consider *increasing* ad board fees, especially since I > have the impression that this year we are giving good value for money in > terms of networking and feedback & access.
Now there are 2 possible fees 5000$ if you have <=50 employees 10000$ if you have > 50 employees You could think of a 1 or 2 more levels here. Because a company of 51 employees is quite different to 5000 employees. So what about 1000$ < 10 employees 2500$ < 25 employees 5000$ < 100 employees 10000$ < 1000 employees 20000$ > 1000 employees If the current sponsors agree to this (I think it's very important that they agree) the income would go up significantly because GNOME has quite some sponsors with more than a 1000 employees (HP, Google, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Novell, Redhat). Furthermore on the low end we also introduce more options. For the big companies to pay more we need to come up with a plan on how to spend the money. A full time sysadmin helping to setup stuff comes first to mind, but then there is quite some money left. Jaap -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list