Re: recruiting sponsors

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Jaap:

> So what about
>
> 1000$ < 10 employees
> 2500$ < 25 employees
> 5000$ < 100 employees
> 10000$ < 1000 employees
> 20000$ > 1000 employees
>
> If the current sponsors agree to this (I think it's very important
> that they agree) the income would go up significantly because GNOME
> has quite some sponsors with more than a 1000 employees (HP, Google,
> Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Novell, Redhat). Furthermore on the low end we
> also introduce more options.

It does make sense to have a sliding scale that allows smaller
organizations to more easily participate in the community by donating
and getting recognition.  However, as you say, how the fees are handled
for larger organizations would need to be negotiated with those
organizations which currently donate.

Brian