Re: Listing recognised NPOs on the website

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 at 16:13, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 7:11 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 at 01:46, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net> wrote:
> >> +</p>
> >> +<p>
> >> + For larger donations, please consider becoming a <a
> >> + href="/about/financial/">Financial Sponsor</a>.
> >> +</p>
> >> +
> >>
> >> This bit should probably be removed... I'm not sure what a "larger
> >> donation" means and I suspect suggesting people become "financial
> >> sponsors" is likely to confuse people who have been making "larger
> >> donations" to the existing non-profits for years given this term only
> >> exists in the context of these few pages.
> >
> > I want to have something in there as we now have the concept of
> financial sponsors for NPOs that wish to use it on the site (the main
> reason for which is to have a place to put logos as one of the benefits).
> I'm open to suggestions for better wording if you have any.
> >
>
> I think the better wording is to remove it :-)
>
> Every NPO already accepts financial sponsorships, if you really want
> to support the NPOs, you should encourage people to go directly to
> those sites.
>

That is not correct at all. PostgreSQL Europe does not accept financial
sponsors, and SPI certainly doesn't have a PostgreSQL sponsorship program.
Those are just two quick examples from the top of my head; I'm sure there
are more.

Secondarily, encouraging people to go directly to the NPO sites defeats the
purpose of allowing the NPOs to list their sponsors on the main website -
the whole point of the re-org of those pages was to help the NPOs
supporting the project offer a much more visible benefit to their
sponsors, as there isn't really any way to support postgresql.org directly.

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