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at this point this is a Fedora Advisory Board question not Ambassadors
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On 07/30/2010 09:05 AM, Ryan Lewis wrote:
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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.<br>
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-rhl<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/30 Jukka Palander <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 12:42 +0200, Mathieu Bridon wrote:<br>
> On 07/30/2010 12:16 PM, Jukka Palander wrote:<br>
> > Hmmm.<br>
> ><br>
> > Adding commercial logos into the Fedora site is bit dangerous!<br>
> ><br>
> > At least have to be careful in these:<br>
> ><br>
> > 1) not to give an idea that Fedora has anything to do with
commercial<br>
> > products/companies<br>
> ><br>
> > 2) must be clearly mentioned, that they are sponsors only
(for a<br>
> > particular section) and does not have any other involvement
to the<br>
> > Fedora or its development<br>
> ><br>
> > 3) must be aware who the sponsors are and do they fit into
the "Fedora<br>
> > world"<br>
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> You do realize we already have some sponsors for infrastructure
and we<br>
> already display their logos on our main page, right?<br>
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Yes, I am not against sponsors. Just wanted to remind those issues.<br>
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We'll never know if we have a (wanna-be) sponsor who we do not want to<br>
be displayed in the official F-site. For those situations it is good<br>
that it's been discussed.<br>
As I mentioned in section 3 -> "must be aware who they are"! -->
and<br>
then make the decision!<br>
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..or are you happy to take some big money from them to Fedora and then<br>
find out that the so called sponsor is somehow bad for us (like<br>
XXX-site, malware or spamming site etc)?<br>
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Also, there is always risk that the "sponsor" starts telling us what to<br>
do because they've paid the money! ..be aware -they have to be sponsors<br>
and clearly sponsors only!<br>
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This issue has nothing to do with the current sponsors though, but still<br>
I think it is very easy to give an picture that they have something<br>
deeper to do with Fedora and therefore I would "think first and act<br>
afterwards".<br>
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<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">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? </font>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">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 </font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">in here is to be awared of the
REAL benefit that we can get from here to the Project.</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">By example if it is going to be
a very little discount and most of the community thinks it's risky </font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">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.</font>
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<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">That's just my opinion.</font></div>
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