[Foundation-discuss] Rewarding sponsors with acknowledgement in source/logos on website?

Dave Botsch botsch@cnf.cornell.edu
Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:36:53 -0500


We could start over with that page fresh. Or put it up someplace as a
historical thing. But unless that was a promised benefit, then, I
wouldn't be comfortable doing it for something in the past.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 07:14:26PM +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> 
> On Nov 27, 2015, at 18:45 , Dave Botsch wrote:
> 
> >> The first one seems a bit problematic to me, unless there are at least a handful of such sponsors and there's some diversity among them.
> >> 
> > 
> > I agree and disagree. It could potentially look bad if there's just one
> > or two. On the otherhand, it singles those one or two out and perhaps
> > sends a message to others. 
> > 
> > I'd like to see it on the main page versus a separate page.
> > 
> >> The others are fine IMHO. Contributors (including sponsors) are being acknowledged on the openafs.org web site. I'm not sure whether we're distributing "credits" with the source releases, but we probably aren't but should be.
> > 
> > A separate sponsors file included with the source distro?
> 
> I meant http://www.openafs.org/credits.html . Including it with the source we distribute seems reasonable to me. It includes (former) sponsors.
> 
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