[Ambassadors] Media discount = sponsoring?

[Ryan Lewis]

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>

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> 2010/7/30 Jukka Palander <jukka at devspain.com>
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> 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".
>>
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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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