On 8/21/18 5:41 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 15:46, Patrick Shanahan
wrote: * Alexander Graul
[08-21-18 09:31]: [...] 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 agree. Playing devils advocate, does that mean we should cease sponsoring anything to do with any local region?
Not at all. I my opinion, it should not be an explicit factor though (and therefore not worthy of mentioning).
No more sponsorship of any local LUG events? How about city-focused events like Brighton Ruby? Are regions like Asia ok but smaller localities not?
Local is always the question of perspective. Local to global is a scale and as you point out it is hard to draw a line. I don't think sponsoring should be a factor of something being local or not - hence my question in the first place. Maybe I read too much into the mention of it being a local team, I just don't think it really matters. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org