On Fri, September 30, 2011 2:01 pm, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Peter: > >> With the Friends of GNOME mock-up, I was just exploring what the page >> could look like with an expanded corporate sponsorship section, as per >> Brian Cameron's email [1]. > > I think we need to have a sponsors page that makes it easier to > highlight what sponsors are making happen within the GNOME community. > It is a nice way to say thanks, and to encourage others to sponsor. > > It would be good if we could better recognize organizations that do > things like sponsor a party at a GNOME event or an a11y project. Since > many sponsors are also advisory board members, I think we want to make > it clear that we are recognizing sponsors and advisory board members > separately.
I agree, and think that this is a priority. I think we also want to highlight advisory board members as top notch support - the adboard members give a lot both financially and in, well, providing advice :) That said, it would be really great to acknowledge all different levels and kinds of support, while encouraging sponsors to go to a higher level. Linux Foundation has a very straight-forward structure in place for levels of support, which they reflect, like a lot of other organizations in the placement and size of logos: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members The London Olympics page has a scroll at the bottom with some of the logos cycling to fill a smaller area http://www.london2012.com/ I think we'll want something unique to GNOME, but it could be good to look at what others are doing. > It would be good if we could make such a page build dynamically so that > logo images, and the information about what they sponsored could be > easily and quickly added or removed from the page as we wish to > highlight sponsors. > > Also, there should be some information about how the reader could > consider becoming a sponsor, or to encourage their organization(s) to > sponsor. Perhaps to also mention benefits of sponsoring. Perhaps > some examples of how we've managed sponsorships in the past. We > have many examples of good a11y work done via sponsorship, for > example. Likewise the Women's Outreach Program is a good example. This is great - EFF has a "thanks" page, on which they list in kind donors and internship sponsors. http://www.eff.org/thanks I like the way they highlight the different kinds of donations and I think we can build something like that even more as Brian suggests. > Perhaps we might also provide things to organizations that sponsor > significant amounts. Things that probably are more aimed at > organizational sponsors than framed prints, tshirts, or mugs. > Perhaps we could provide things to organizations like free passes to a > GNOME event we would normally charge entrance fees to, to include their > logos in the GUADEC event materials/GNOME Journal or other logo > placement, or other ways to add value to sponsorship and to make sure > we recognize sponsors well. I like the idea of finding ways to bring value to our big sponsors, but I worry a little too - we can't seem to be selling things like conference attendance to our sponsors and calling it a donation. Perhaps we need to think a little outside of the box here - I think we need to make it attractive for companies to sponsor us but we also want to avoid anything that could make the foundation look like it's just a shell for corporations. Logo placement is something I do think we should explore, and it's a classic trapping for nonprofit support. karen _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
