Seems more a matter for TM@ than the TB, but nevertheless fine by me, +1. On 04/09/12 18:15, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Dear Ubuntu Technical Board > > Not too long ago, the TB approved Kubuntu's request to change their > primary sponsor from Canonical to Blue Systems. > > In Edubuntu, we've realised that in order to grow the project, we will > from time to time also need some additional sponsorship. At this stage, > it is items ranging from development hardware to hosting for application > servers. > > Currently we have one company providing us with our additional > requirements, as well as employee time during work hours which is quite > valuable. We'd like to provide some official recognition as well as open > the doors for more sponsors if more sponsorship opportunities become > available. In particular, we'd like to give sponsors the right to use > the Edubuntu logo on their site and state that they are a sponsor, as > well as providing a link bank from the Edubuntu website explaining their > contributions. > > Unlike Kubuntu, we want to continue to acknowledge Canonical as > Edubuntu's primary sponsor. Canonical provides build infrastructure, > travel & accommodation for UDS for 1 representative of the project and > in many cases we've had Canonical employees fix some Edubuntu bugs. > Canonical also had full-time staff working on the project at some point. > > The new sponsors would be listed after Canonical as secondary sponsors > to the project. The Edubuntu Council will review these sponsors on an > annual basis and once a sponsor has been inactive for a sponsorship > cycle, they will be moved to a "previous" sponsors page. > > There's a description on what we aim to achieve on: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Sponsorship > > The contents of the above link was agreed upon by the current Edubuntu > Council. > > We would like the Technical Board to approve this process. Looking at > the Ubuntu trademark policy, it doesn't seem like it would be a problem > for sponsor to put an Edubuntu logo on their site and link it back to > the Edubuntu site. If we need to do some additional work there, please > let us know. > > We want to tentatively go ahead with this, so it would be great to have > an official nod from the TB. If there's any objections or concerns, I > would suggest raising them sooner rather than later. > > Thanks for reading and have a great day! > > -Jonathan on behalf of the Edubuntu Council >
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