Maxi are you concerned about the impression being listed on the sponsors page provides? The board has never approved a "gold sponsorship", it looks like this was something negotiated on the conference-dev list as part of accepting the proposal.
With respect to OSGeo taking financial risk, and being host of the the event. I like how it is handled for .foss4g-na.org - "An event by OSGeo" would be appropriate. Personally: this is a tricky one because of how we setup foss4g a little bit at arms length, accepting bids from local organizing committees that have gathered to gather to run the event. I do not mind OSGeo being listed as a sponsor, if we choose to sponsor the event in order to have booth space. I would love if we paid for that up front in order to not put the LOC out financially. In this sense I do feel that FOSS4G is a collaboration between OSGeo (taking financial risk) and LOC (doing the work, and taking a risk putting time into the application process). Since the LOC provide the feet on the ground I do sometimes feel that OSGeo is a guest at these events, especially when the AGM is hard to schedule. -- Jody Garnett On 2 July 2017 at 01:22, Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch > wrote: > Dear community and board members, > Today I found out that OSGeo is a a SPONSOR of the FOSS4G-2017 Boston > conference. > > This is disappointing me ! > > At least for two reasons: > > 1- foss4g is the OSGeo's conference, so OSGeo is the host not a guest > (have you ever seen AGU sponsoring it's annual event?) > > 2- OSGeo is already providing seed and risk exposure money so it shouldn't > need to pay for get exposure or being listed in the sponsor page. > > So, as an OSGeo charter member, I formally ask the board to remove OSGeo > from the sponsor list ! > > Regards > Maxi > > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > bo...@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board >
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