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Corey Shields wrote: |
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| That could get messy. |
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It shouldn't do. It's a common enough model, one used by many |
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professional and trade organisations. |
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| I would rather if someone wanted something in |
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| return for giving money we could easily add them to our sponsors page |
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| and they could then say "hey, look, we're a Gentoo Foundation Supporter!". |
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/me shrugs. I think that's a much harder sell, and longer term will |
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raise less money / hardware / whatever else the Foundation (and the |
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project) requires. |
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There's two obvious limitations with it. For someone to do that, they |
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have to feel altuistic towards the project. Or (more importantly) the |
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manager with the appropriate sign-off limit has to feel altuistic. |
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Secondly, signing up as a sponsor can be seen as being positioned as a |
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backer of Gentoo. Great for companies like Genesi who want to be seen |
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as backing Gentoo, but again, much more difficult to justify to senior |
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management in a wider circle of companies. |
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Buying a membership has a different slant to it. Companies do it all |
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the time. It'd be even better if we could offer some form of |
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subscription, but right now I can't think of what we could offer in that |
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way. |
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| umm that's kinda what we're discussing here.. :) |
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I must have missed that. I would have sworn that this thread was about |
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who could apply for membership, rather than where to go and what to fill |
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out :P |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/ |
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~ http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ |
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