Re: recruiting sponsors

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 17:54, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback I've gotten for this off list.
>
> An idea that's come up several times is financially compensating individuals
> and companies that bring additional companies to the GNOME community. While
> we want companies to come join the community and participate, regardless of
> whether or not they sponsor the Foundation financially, it might be worth
> rewarding people for bringing financial contributions.
>
> What would people think of a 10% finders fee for individuals or companies
> that brought in sponsors?
>
> Maybe there's some guidelines like must give at least $5,000.
>
I don't like the finders fee that much. If we want to offer something
it should be more in the spirit of free beer. So maybe a travel cheque
that can be used to visit GUADEC. So in the proposed case of 10% and
5000$ it would be a 500$ travel cheque that can only be used to visit
GUADEC or some other GNOME conference

Jaap