[Privoxy-devel] Sponsoring policy

[Lee]

On 7/17/16, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> I have strong opinions about this,

same here.  There's a lot of sites that I wouldn't accept their money.

>> 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?
>
> Here's a screen grab of the OpenSUSE policy:
> https://www.fabiankeil.de/tmp/Sponsoring_for_opensuse.png
>
> What we will offer is up for discussion.

A logo + link to the sponsoring site or are you thinking of something else?

> OpenSUSE's sponsor levels affect logo and link placement which
> makes sense to me as it is probably the main thing potential
> sponsors are interested in.

Sounds about right.

>> 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.
>
> I thought about this as well (and would like it), but currently
> I think sustainably funding the infrastructure has a higher priority.
>
> So far my impression is that the potential sponsors that contacted
> me don't particularly care how the money is spent as long as they
> get their link and logo placement.

Which is probably correct.  If a sponsor wants something specific I'm
sure they'll say so :)

So the next step would be .. what?  Something easy like where to put
the sponsor logos, something hard like coming up with a policy, or ???

Lee