[Ambassadors] Media discount = sponsoring?

[Jukka Palander]

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