Hi,
It would be really great if we could get the sponsorship reward level stuff nailed down sooner rather than later. The last off-list email I sent regarding this didn't seem to get any response, so I figured we'd just move the discussion on to the list to see if it helps move things forward.
I received a follow-up email from the potential donor with $5,000 and I still had nothing new to tell him. A donor having to follow-up because I didn't have a substantive response to provide is not a good thing... especially when weeks later I have literally no new info for them.
I was also contacted again by someone who produces educational courses for Inkscape who would like to donate via profit sharing if we'd be willing to promote his courses. Since he originally contacted me a year ago, he has garnered 5,000 sales of his courses. His proposal is to donate half of the proceeds moving forward. So, in his case it would be a unique situation since his donation amount wouldn't be predictable. I think it has the potential to be hugely beneficial to both parties.
Any thoughts, comments, or questions would be appreciated just so the conversation goes somewhere.
Cheers, Josh
Hi Josh,
I think the only thing we need to make a call on is how disruptive any backers will be to our website. (at least from my perspective)
I'd like to get the tutorial guys into the tutorial page, that should be easy. But we need to check to make sure that the backer is happy with that placement and ask if they have any svg image we can integrate into the page (with maybe a "support's inkscape" message in there).
For the other backer, what do they want and for how long?
At this stage I'd be willing to kick an ad-hoc vote in to clear these quickly.
Thoughts?
Martin,
On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 09:59 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Hi,
It would be really great if we could get the sponsorship reward level stuff nailed down sooner rather than later. The last off-list email I sent regarding this didn't seem to get any response, so I figured we'd just move the discussion on to the list to see if it helps move things forward.
I received a follow-up email from the potential donor with $5,000 and I still had nothing new to tell him. A donor having to follow-up because I didn't have a substantive response to provide is not a good thing... especially when weeks later I have literally no new info for them.
I was also contacted again by someone who produces educational courses for Inkscape who would like to donate via profit sharing if we'd be willing to promote his courses. Since he originally contacted me a year ago, he has garnered 5,000 sales of his courses. His proposal is to donate half of the proceeds moving forward. So, in his case it would be a unique situation since his donation amount wouldn't be predictable. I think it has the potential to be hugely beneficial to both parties.
Any thoughts, comments, or questions would be appreciated just so the conversation goes somewhere.
Cheers,
Josh
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 01:12:23PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
Hi Josh,
I think the only thing we need to make a call on is how disruptive any backers will be to our website. (at least from my perspective)
I'd like to get the tutorial guys into the tutorial page, that should be easy. But we need to check to make sure that the backer is happy with that placement and ask if they have any svg image we can integrate into the page (with maybe a "support's inkscape" message in there).
For the other backer, what do they want and for how long?
At this stage I'd be willing to kick an ad-hoc vote in to clear these quickly.
I'd also like to get this nailed down, those are some big contributions. If we need a vote let me know what we need to be voting on and I'll get it set up asap.
Bryce
Thoughts?
Martin,
On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 09:59 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Hi,
It would be really great if we could get the sponsorship reward level stuff nailed down sooner rather than later. The last off-list email I sent regarding this didn't seem to get any response, so I figured we'd just move the discussion on to the list to see if it helps move things forward.
I received a follow-up email from the potential donor with $5,000 and I still had nothing new to tell him. A donor having to follow-up because I didn't have a substantive response to provide is not a good thing... especially when weeks later I have literally no new info for them.
I was also contacted again by someone who produces educational courses for Inkscape who would like to donate via profit sharing if we'd be willing to promote his courses. Since he originally contacted me a year ago, he has garnered 5,000 sales of his courses. His proposal is to donate half of the proceeds moving forward. So, in his case it would be a unique situation since his donation amount wouldn't be predictable. I think it has the potential to be hugely beneficial to both parties.
Any thoughts, comments, or questions would be appreciated just so the conversation goes somewhere.
Cheers,
Josh
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Bryce Harrington < bryce@...2...> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 01:12:23PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
I think the only thing we need to make a call on is how disruptive any backers will be to our website. (at least from my perspective)
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?
I'd like to get the tutorial guys into the tutorial page, that should be
easy. But we need to check to make sure that the backer is happy with that placement and ask if they have any svg image we can integrate into the page (with maybe a "support's inkscape" message in there).
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?
For the other backer, what do they want and for how long?
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.
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.
At this stage I'd be willing to kick an ad-hoc vote in to clear these quickly.
I'd also like to get this nailed down, those are some big contributions. If we need a vote let me know what we need to be voting on and I'll get it set up asap.
As soon as we can figure out exactly what we're voting on, that would be great. :)
Cheers, Josh
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.
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
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 :-)
Martin,
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
On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 09:59 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Hi,
It would be really great if we could get the sponsorship reward level stuff nailed down sooner rather than later. The last off-list email I sent regarding this didn't seem to get any response, so I figured we'd just move the discussion on to the list to see if it helps move things forward.
I received a follow-up email from the potential donor with $5,000 and I still had nothing new to tell him. A donor having to follow-up because I didn't have a substantive response to provide is not a good thing... especially when weeks later I have literally no new info for them.
We already voted on sponsorship levels last September. For a $5000 (Golden Brush) donations we agreed:
- Acknowledgment with logo on "Our Sponsor Page" (one year)
2. Acknowledgment with logo on our home page (one year) for Silver
and above levels.
Logos must be 160x80px and non-animated. SVG's are encouraged. Logos must be non-political and non-offensive with the Inkscape board and SFC being the final arbitrators of suitability.
Is there something more being asked for?
I was also contacted again by someone who produces educational courses for Inkscape who would like to donate via profit sharing if we'd be willing to promote his courses. Since he originally contacted me a year ago, he has garnered 5,000 sales of his courses. His proposal is to donate half of the proceeds moving forward. So, in his case it would be a unique situation since his donation amount wouldn't be predictable. I think it has the potential to be hugely beneficial to both parties.
This is a good offer, however, before agreeing to "endorse" his course by linking to it, I would want to review it.
Tav
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