[Privoxy-devel] Sponsoring policy (was: Text link)

[Fabian Keil]

Petteri Ollila <petteri_ollila at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to buy a text link from privoxy.org to my investing related site.
> Is that possible and how much would it cost?

I've gotten similar requests in the past via private mail and therefore
think it would be useful if the website would answer these questions.

Currently we have no documented policy for this, but recently
accepted a logo and link for the current hosting sponsor (which
sponsors the costs for one physical server for one year).

My impression is that this also affected the amount of sponsorship
requests I receive.

In my opinion it would be useful to have more than one server
and to be able to continue renting at least one physical server
after the current sponsoring agreement ends.

I looked around a bit to see how other projects handle sponsoring,
but apparently the majority don't transparently document it,
or I did not find the documentation due to lack of patience.

One positive exception is the openSUSE project, which has a
"sponsored by" section at the end of the website which links
to a sponsoring page: https://www.opensuse.org/

The sponsoring concept is documented at:
https://en.opensuse.org/images/8/8c/Sponsoring_for_opensuse.pdf

They have three sponsoring levels with list prices ranging from
50000 USD to 10000 USD.

We could start with a similar model with list prices ranging from
10000 EUR to 1000 EUR. I would not be surprised if nobody signed up
for the "gold" or "silver" level, but a single "bronze" sponsor would
already cover the rent for two physical servers for a year.

If it turns out that even the "bronze" level is too expensive,
we could experiment with different prices before completely
running out of funds.

Any opinions about this?

Fabian
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