Sponsorship

["Peter B. West" <li...@pbw.id.au>]

Jeremias,

I meant to ask you when you mentioned your sponsor; who is it?

I'm sure they're happy with the work you've put in.

Peter
-- 
Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/>
Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/>

Re: Sponsorship

[Simon Pepping <sp...@leverkruid.nl>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:27:45AM +0100, Peter B. West wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> >On 29.09.2005 11:58:57 Peter B. West wrote:
> >
> I can understand that some sponsors may be sensitive to divulging such 
> information, for at least two reasons. Firstly, the treat of being 
> inundated with begging letters, and secondly, the possibility that they 
> might be upsetting their own business partners.
> 
> Before you took up the sponsorship offer, you mentioned to me that it 
> was on the cards, which I appreciated.  I assume you told others as 
> well. Targeted sponsorship is potentially extremely disruptive to a 
> group, and it seems to me that the process must be as open as possible. 
>  If it can't be as open as the code, it should be nearly so.

Do you mean that such a sponsorship changes the relations within the
group? It certainly does. I feel that Jeremias has done an admirable
job in managing the relations within the group, and in balancing his
full time input in FOP with the more limited input of other group
members.

Regards, Simon

-- 
Simon Pepping
home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl

Re: Sponsorship

["Peter B. West" <li...@pbw.id.au>]

Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> On 29.09.2005 11:58:57 Peter B. West wrote:
> 
>>Jeremias,
>>
>>I meant to ask you when you mentioned your sponsor; who is it?
> 
> 
> I'm not at liberty to disclose that at this point.
> 
> 
>>I'm sure they're happy with the work you've put in.
> 
> 
> Yes, they are. We've already achieved one of the major goals: To
> bring FOP out of its stagnation and make it more interesting for people
> to jump in and help again. FOP's gona live! :-)
> 
> Jeremias Maerki

I can understand that some sponsors may be sensitive to divulging such 
information, for at least two reasons. Firstly, the treat of being 
inundated with begging letters, and secondly, the possibility that they 
might be upsetting their own business partners.

Before you took up the sponsorship offer, you mentioned to me that it 
was on the cards, which I appreciated.  I assume you told others as 
well. Targeted sponsorship is potentially extremely disruptive to a 
group, and it seems to me that the process must be as open as possible. 
  If it can't be as open as the code, it should be nearly so.

Peter
-- 
Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/>
Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/>

Re: Sponsorship

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>]

(Got my life line back. Phew.)

On 29.09.2005 11:58:57 Peter B. West wrote:
> Jeremias,
> 
> I meant to ask you when you mentioned your sponsor; who is it?

I'm not at liberty to disclose that at this point.

> I'm sure they're happy with the work you've put in.

Yes, they are. We've already achieved one of the major goals: To
bring FOP out of its stagnation and make it more interesting for people
to jump in and help again. FOP's gona live! :-)

Jeremias Maerki