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, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
