On 22/08/2018 18:18, Per Jessen wrote:
Ana Martínez wrote:
2018-08-21 15:29 GMT+02:00 Alexander Graul
: ## Sponsoring Football Club
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I have to say I don't really see a good reason to sponsor a football team. I doubt we will find users let alone contributors among the players or their parents. I think this money could be spent on groups or clubs that are closer related to our project instead.
I also don't understand why "local" matters here. I thought openSUSE was an "open and global community project" (quote from https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members) - where does "local" fit in a global community?
I couldn't agree more. The vote against this sponsorship is mine, but that is how democracy works. ;) It would be interesting to know what other people think about that. Any other opinions?
I agree with Alexander, it does seem a bit odd. When seen in isolation it seems fine, but if we were to put together a list of the rest of Bavarias/Germanys/Europes kids' football clubs, no doubt all with "parents and supporters from local technical companies" ....
One difference with this one compared to most of the others and which is generally a requirement for openSUSE being willing to sponsor anything including events / conferences etc is that there is a member of the openSUSE community who's willing to talk about what we are and do. Personally i've always seen "local" sponsorship as a good thing, the last company I worked for had a sponsorship budget and committee just for things like this. That wasn't really my main reason for supporting this, I don't feel its appropriate to share that on list but if you'd really like to know you can contact me off list and I'll likely give you some idea. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B