also sprach Lucas Nussbaum <leader@debian.org> [2015-03-16 07:55 +0100]:
> Please let me know if you need something from me.
I would like to know how the procedure will be between now and then.
Let's make it easy and say up-front that we will not allow a sponsor
to gain influence over project decisions, no matter how much money
they give us.¹
So we get to work and design the "products" to sell with our
sponsorship brochure, i.e. bundling perks (benefits) for different
levels. For instance, we might want to name sprints after our
Silver+ sponsors, mention all Gold and Platinum sponsors in our
press releases forthwith, and offer 50% discounts on the DebConf
sponsorship packages of equal or lesser levels to all our sponsors.
Obviously, none of this will be developed behind closed doors
(though probably also not on a mailing list like this) and it'll be
really useful to reach out to the community for feedback, scrutiny
and ideas, but what I wouldn't want to do is "develop" this brochure
in a mailing list discussion with dozens of people.
I'd only be motivated to work on this if I was allowed to try
things (within limits of course, and also respecting guidelines put
forth in a delegation), make mistakes and recover from them. Can you
imagine that we can pull this off?
¹) I think we could open ourselves to ideas about this later on,
but that would certainly require a working programme and
a lengthy discussion about values. So let's not even go there
now.
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