Re: [gentoo-project] Rekindling Gentoo News -> Paying for news

[Kent Fredric]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:21:12 -0500
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:

> Corporate sponsors will only sponsor Gentoo if they have a direct benefit.
> Right now with how Gentoo is. There is no reason for anyone to give Gentoo
> money, individual or corporation.

People reading the newsletter seeing that a company sponsored it both makes
people more aware that a company exists, and gives them confidence that the company
cares enough about opensource to sponsor it.

And this makes opensource preferring people more likely to choose that company.

How do you think The Perl Foundation has money to pay for developing things?

Oh. They have sponsors, and they're listed: https://metacpan.org/about/meta_hack 

Note: All of these companies have some mutualistic involvement.

And there's this: http://pythonchallenge.org/sponsors-and-partners/

This: https://us.pycon.org/2015/sponsors/ 

This: http://www.rubyconf.org/sponsors

This: https://jaxlondon.com/sponsors-exhibitors/ 

There is direct benefit: Being seen is a direct benefit.