2009/5/26 Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org>: > Hi, > > There's a trade-off here: > * We want an influential advisory board with big supporters of GNOME > * We want more money > > Currently, we have the influential advisory board, and all the members (with > the possible exception of Google, SFLC) are involved in distributing or > developing GNOME and the GNOME platform. We don't want to lose that, but we > want to increase funds available. One possible way is to increase how much > we receive for the advisory board dues from each member. Another way to > raise more money is to have a corporate sponsorship program where people get > a reward for giving a certain amount of money. But I think it's vital to > keep the two absolutely, and completely, separate.
Totally agree. I don't think it's worth populating the AdBoard with companies/orgs that cannot add value. But still, I know organizations that would be happy to just be part of the foundation as a bare marketing thing or a way to pay back what they get out of the project with no intents at all of being part of the adboard. -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list