Great! Ok, this Adobe, Omnigraffle sponsorship really only makes sense if you have an us vs. them competition, where you have Adobe Tools vs. Microsoft tools, or Mozilla sponsors a team dedicated to purely open sources tools (or Sun, b/c they have OpenOffice). Which was the original point of car sponsorship. In the Grand Prix world you often have a Honda, toyota or Mercedes team. They put millions of dollars into these teams not just to get exposure but to research.
Once you go the route of sponsoring, just for support of a personality or possible "winner", we might as well just have Team Viagra. Todd? (Oh! I just couldn't resist ... please strike that from the testimony!!) The only sponsor should be the employer of the team. Team Message First. Team Semantic Foundry. That all makes sense to me. But Michael and Jorge both made really important points that since most conflicts are happening in more poor parts of the world, it might make more sense to include teams from the part of the world that are most effected by the problems you want to engage. Again, HUBRIS! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38434 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
