[Ambassadors] Media discount = sponsoring?

[Ben Williams]

at this point this is a Fedora Advisory Board question not Ambassadors IMHO


On 07/30/2010 09:05 AM, Ryan Lewis wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Can someone tell me who this sponsor is? We aren't debating just any 
> sponsor here. We can investigate if this sponsor might be bad for our 
> image.
>
> -rhl
>
> 2010/7/30 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com <mailto:Jmlevick at gmail.com>>
>
>
>
>     2010/7/30 Jukka Palander <jukka at devspain.com
>     <mailto:jukka at devspain.com>>
>
>         On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 12:42 +0200, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
>         > On 07/30/2010 12:16 PM, Jukka Palander wrote:
>         > > Hmmm.
>         > >
>         > > Adding commercial logos into the Fedora site is bit dangerous!
>         > >
>         > > At least have to be careful in these:
>         > >
>         > > 1) not to give an idea that Fedora has anything to do with
>         commercial
>         > > products/companies
>         > >
>         > > 2) must be clearly mentioned, that they are sponsors only
>         (for a
>         > > particular section) and does not have any other
>         involvement to the
>         > > Fedora or its development
>         > >
>         > > 3) must be aware who the sponsors are and do they fit into
>         the "Fedora
>         > > world"
>         >
>         > You do realize we already have some sponsors for
>         infrastructure and we
>         > already display their logos on our main page, right?
>         >
>         >
>
>         Yes, I am not against sponsors. Just wanted to remind those
>         issues.
>
>         We'll never know if we have a (wanna-be) sponsor who we do not
>         want to
>         be displayed in the official F-site. For those situations it
>         is good
>         that it's been discussed.
>         As I mentioned in section 3 -> "must be aware who they are"!
>         --> and
>         then make the decision!
>
>         ..or are you happy to take some big money from them to Fedora
>         and then
>         find out that the so called sponsor is somehow bad for us (like
>         XXX-site, malware or spamming site etc)?
>
>         Also, there is always risk that the "sponsor" starts telling
>         us what to
>         do because they've paid the money! ..be aware -they have to be
>         sponsors
>         and clearly sponsors only!
>
>         This issue has nothing to do with the current sponsors though,
>         but still
>         I think it is very easy to give an picture that they have
>         something
>         deeper to do with Fedora and therefore I would "think first
>         and act
>         afterwards".
>
>         --
>         Jukka
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>     I think that BEFORE telling about if the sponsor is good or bad,
>     we have to tlak about the Discount... is it going to be an
>     important one?
>     Something that we can say: "Ok, it's worth the risk" or not,
>     because we can accept or decline offers as a community but the
>     important thing
>     in here is to be awared of the REAL benefit that we can get from
>     here to the Project.
>
>     By example if it is going to be a very little discount and most of
>     the community thinks it's risky
>     to accept a sponsor, then, Why accept the Sponsor? Let's talk
>     about numbers, and then we can make a whole investigation about
>     the PROS and CONS of a sponsorship.
>
>     That's just my opinion.
>
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