[Debconf-team] Shortening the sponsorship brochure

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org>]

Hi

I know I'm very late with this. But IMHO the sponsorship brochure got a
bit too long. I tried to shorten it a bit and propose the following
patch. I did not commit it as I think the removals should be reviewed by
at least one additional person. We also don't have to apply all of them.
But I also think if someone agrees to a chunk I removed you can just
commit it.

Some rationale for the removals:
- I removed some quotes. This was quite hard be cause all the quotes are
  really nice. But sometimes they are also a bit repetitive and don't
  show anything new. I tried to restrict the quotes to one (max 2) per
  section. I choose the one that I liked most, but YMMV.
- Further down I moved some text around and tried to condens it
  somewhat. IMO we have too much and too verbose rationales for
  sponsoring. I guess that most of this is known and obvious to most of
  our sponsors. They already know that Debian is a volunteer effort and
  the know that they can gain reputation in the Linux and Free Software
  community by sponsoring events.
- I also removed the sentence about the minimal amount of sponsoring
  because that should be obvious from the levels. And we don't want to
  encourage small amounts.

Gaudenz

P.S.: Unfortunately I'm unable to build the brochure. A list of Debian
packages that need to be installed in the README file would be helpful.
I get the following error:

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 2+293/600 --dpi 1493 DejaVuSerif-Bold-tlf-t1--base
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for DejaVuSerif-Bold-tlf-t1--base.
mktexpk: perhaps DejaVuSerif-Bold-tlf-t1--base is missing from the map file.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
(see the transcript file for additional information)
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file DejaVuSerif-Bold-tlf-t1--base): Font DejaVuSerif-
Bold-tlf-t1--base at 1493 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
make: *** [brochure.en.pdf] Fehler 70


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