acknowledging sponsorship and institutional partners
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Hi all, In [1] I am adding institutional partners and sponsor logos to the numpy.org website. Sebastian made some good comments there, and I think it would be very helpful if we had some guidelines on how we acknowledge sponsorship. Our governance doc has clear text on what an Institutional Partner is, see [2]. We don't have anything written down about sponsorship though. In my open PR I followed the example of Jupyter (see [3]), which lists Institutional Partners first, followed by Sponsors. For sponsors I think we will want to define some minimum level of sponsorship for which we will put a logo somewhere (main page, or about page). Jupyter seems to just put everything together. Scikit-learn and NumFOCUS do the same on their front pages. NumFOCUS has tiered levels as well with different benefits, and displays the tiers at [4]. Page 17 of the NumFOCUS sponsorship brochure [5] spells out the sponsorship levels very clearly: from platinum at $100k to bronze at $10k, and a special level for "emerging leader" (startups) below that. I think that following the NumFOCUS model would be the most straightforward thing to do, because (a) we're part of NumFOCUS, and (b) it's very well documented. And also fairest in a way - it gives some recognition proportionally to the contribution. My PR right now lists Moore, Sloan and Tidelift as the 3 sponsors. The first two contributed on the order of $500k each (spread out over 2-3 years), while Tidelift currently contributes $1000/month. So I propose: - acknowledging all active sponsorship (within the last 12 months) by logo placement on numpy.org - acknowledging past sponsorship as well on numpy.org, but on a separate page and perhaps just as a listing rather than prominent logo placement - adopting the NumFOCUS tiered sponsorship model - listing institutional partners and sponsors in the same place, with partners first (following what Jupyter does). Thoughts? Cheers, Ralf [1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy.org/pull/21 [2] https://www.numpy.org/devdocs/dev/governance/governance.html#institutional-p... [3] https://jupyter.org/about [4] https://numfocus.org/sponsors [5] https://numfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NumFOCUS-Corporate-Sponsorsh...
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Hi, I'm pretty sure not all funding is acknowledged on scikit-learn's frontpage. I think the minimum amount to be acknowledge with a logo is funding for a full time developer for at least a year, ie at least 100k€. Cheers, N On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 09:37, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 8:45 PM Gael Varoquaux < gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
Thanks Nelle and Gael, that's useful as a reference. I see the rest of the funding is at https://scikit-learn.org/stable/about.html#funding That seems to be a good model - the front page is prime real estate. Cheers, Ralf
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On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 6:36 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
There seem to be no further comments on this. With an edit to take the feedback of Gael and Nelle into account (let's say $100k minimum for a place on the front page for now - more seems overly ambitious right now), I will take this as "roughly agreed" and make future website edits accordingly. And will find some time to write this up as a formal policy and add it to our governance/dev docs somewhere. Cheers, Ralf
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Hi, I'm pretty sure not all funding is acknowledged on scikit-learn's frontpage. I think the minimum amount to be acknowledge with a logo is funding for a full time developer for at least a year, ie at least 100k€. Cheers, N On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 09:37, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 8:45 PM Gael Varoquaux < gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
Thanks Nelle and Gael, that's useful as a reference. I see the rest of the funding is at https://scikit-learn.org/stable/about.html#funding That seems to be a good model - the front page is prime real estate. Cheers, Ralf
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On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 6:36 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
There seem to be no further comments on this. With an edit to take the feedback of Gael and Nelle into account (let's say $100k minimum for a place on the front page for now - more seems overly ambitious right now), I will take this as "roughly agreed" and make future website edits accordingly. And will find some time to write this up as a formal policy and add it to our governance/dev docs somewhere. Cheers, Ralf
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Gael Varoquaux
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Nelle Varoquaux
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Ralf Gommers