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

[Ian Silvester]

I have strong opinions about this, but the  OpenSUSE policy is 404 (even
that on their site!). If we're cosidering using that as a model, I'd
like tovknow more about what we will offer for the different levels of
sponsorship. Could you elaborate Fabian? 

Separately, I think we should consider whether sponsorship funds might
be directed to paying foe development in order to shrink the TODO list.
But I am getting ahead of myself. 

Keen to understand the potential sponsorship policy, 

Ian



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On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, at 07:42, Fabian Keil wrote:
> 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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