It is my opinion that it is only polite to acknowledge corporate sponsors in a tangible way.
The problem is if you have only one corporate sponsor. I know for a fact that members of the Smythe Group have contributed time to Go dev without compensation. Many other people have also made contributions of time while in the employ of corporate sponsors. I would love to have Davsk acknowledged as a contributor to Go but I am not that good of a programmer, I can write a few articles, answer a few questions, write a few bug reports, teach a Go class to CS students, and try very hard not to be a nuisance but that hardly qualifies me to be acknowledged even with an 8x8 pixel icon. To be fair, establish standards for display of corporate logo sponsorship, this will only enhance the prestige of the language. - A contribution of $1k is worth a 16x16 icon, - a $10k contribution is a full size logo, - Google contribution, maybe the logo should stretch from one side of the page to the other. Open source programmers have families that need food and housing, they need companies that are willing to compensate them for their work. We need to give thanks for those who support the language, not just Google, but everyone. On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 10:40:19 AM UTC-5, Michal Strba wrote: > > As you all know, the new, redesigned Go website has a Google logo in the > bottom right corner. > > Someone opened an issue about this, worrying that with the logo, nobody > will see Go as a community project: > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/33021 > > The issue was promptly closed and locked by a Go team member, which I must > admit, is kind of an unfair move. > > If you read this thread on r/programming, it seems like the worries are > quite justified: > https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ccidly/golang_issue_ticket_remove_the_google_logo/ > > I personally am fine with the logo. > > What do you think? For example, Rust has no Mozilla logo on its page > despite being largely funded by it. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b0688536-c336-4829-ab97-32fda2c800cc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
