Brian Gupta <brian.gu...@brandorr.com> writes: > There was consensus in the sponsors-team meeting today, that labeling > certain hosting providers as "Permanent sponsors" is suboptimal, as it > it could confuse our otherwise "permanent" regular "financial" > sponsors the impression that some sponsorship is more highly valued. > > If one goes to our parent site http://debconf.org/ or the event site > http://debconf13.debconf.org/ certain sponsors that provide hosting > are listed in a way that gives them prominence over all of our > "financial" sponsors who in many cases provide our organization with > monetary assistance well in excess of the monetary value provided by > our hosting sponsors. > > There was agreement that "Permanent sponsors" should be renamed to > "Hosting sponsors" very soon.
Certainly. > > We also felt that somehow we should normalize the placement of these > sponsors, but that this could be deferred for future discussion if we > at least addressed the naming issue. IMO we should move them to the Supporters page in separate Section unless the at least contribute the equivalent value of a Bronze Sponsor each year. I don't think we have to do this for past DebConfs, but at least for DC13 and all the following ones. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
