Re: recruiting sponsors

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
> OTOH, I have wonder if it would be fair to our current Advisory Board
> members to give other companies paying less the same marketing benefit,
> can we consider that the seat in AB is worth -say- $4000 or should we
> limit the marketing benefits of our possible smaller companies?

You want to lower ad board fees?

$10K is a ridiculously small amount of money for many of the companies 
funding the foundation. At this price level, we already have a small 
budget. We might want to consider *increasing* ad board fees, especially 
since I have the impression that this year we are giving good value for 
money in terms of networking and feedback & access.

> I'm thinking that we can get perhaps 8 small companies supporting with
> 1000 USD per year, what could we offer them? what would we keep as
> exclusive to our AB members?

We might follow the GIMP & KDE models, and simply have a page where we 
list benefactors of the foundation, separately from the advisory board.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org