On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 04:39:10PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
Josh,
We also need to nail down what the rewards are for sponsorship levels at some point. As for how disruptive it would be to the website, how exactly would it be disruptive? Wouldn't it be something to the effect of adding new sponsors to the existing page, just adding the different tiers of sponsorship for them?
If that's what this specific backer wants, I have no issue and I think it fits in with what we already have enough that we can go ahead without a vote. But we must have the ok from the backer that this is what they want.
Fwiw it sounds fine to me too.
And agreed, we've had a couple votes now on sponsorship stuff and everything discussed here so far seems to fit with what we've already decided.
I think if we were to do a "news" story about his revenue-sharing sponsorship of Inkscape and place him on the page like you suggested it would be a great way to go. If there's no objection, I'll run it by him and ask him about an image to integrate in the page. As for the image, what did you have in mind?
[IMAGE][PROFESSIONAL INKSCAPE TUTORIALS FROM ACME] [FLOAT][SUPPORTERS OF INKSCAPE] [LEFT ][Half the course's fees go to help sustain inkscape]
Something like that? With the whole think being a link to their site?
They approached it as just wanting to be listed on the sponsorship page. He hadn't mentioned anything term-wise, but in our (Inkscape's) discussions about sponsorship levels we had discussed listing tiered sponsors for a year.
A year is fair. We'll put a year somewhere in the copy as we say thanks to them so we can track it in situe
In fact I would suggest communicating it as "A minimum of one year". That gives us the option to remove it later, but without the obligation to do so.
I bet we could get them to add a blurb about Inkscape, our logo, and url to the literature they will be shipping with their laser cutters (and likely their website as well), and if that were the case I would press for us to give them one of those "ongoing" placements that our service providers get. If others think that this would be worth entertaining I can shoot an email their way.
Sounds good, this would be a third activity in this email chain :-)
Agreed as well. Let's make definitely sure we get things squared away on our end.
Is there anything I can lend a hand with to help?
Bryce