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Governance/ProjectSponsorship
Purpose
OWASP needs to define our approach to handling corporate sponsorship and branding of OWASP projects. To do so we are engaging the community to discuss and flush out different options. We'll then include a vote on the 2013 annual election ballot on this issue. The new policy will take effect for all new branding and sponsorships starting January 1, 2014. Existing branding decisions will not be required to retroactively modify.
The Options
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Option | 1 - Project Leaders Decide All | 2 - Standardized across projects & allowing project sponsorship/logos | 3 - Standardized across projects & not allowing project sponsorship/logos |
Summary Description |
Each individual project leader makes all decisions on sponsorship and recognition. Project leaders determine the requirements and placements of logos at their discretion
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Anyone can pay to place a sponsorship logo on a project per a centralized policy.All contributors get name, email address, company (if desired), hyperlink (no logo) per leadership decision. No logos for just contributions of any sort
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Projects list individual contributors on a dedicated acknowledgement page per project which is consistent across all project ( Name, email, company name). Financial sponsors only listed on a dedicated sponsor page on a centralized owasp webpage (e.g. no logos on projects)
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Can OWASP projects be directly sponsored by a company | Yes | Yes | No - however companies can sponsor the OWASP Foundation and the foundation can distribute funds to projects through items like summer of code / project reboot / etc |
Are company logos placed within the OWASP project? | Yes | Yes | No |
How are logos handled (placement, cost, logo size, etc) |
At the sole discretion of the project leader |
By OWASP wide standard policy for project sponsorship. Logos would be included at a standard place for all projects. |
Sponsors of the OWASP foundation are on a dedicated sponsorship page which may include the logo |
How are company contributions acknowledged? |
At the sole discretion of the project leader |
The same as individual contributors. However, since an individual can list their company name a company with many volunteers to a project would see their company name listed multiple times on the project acknowledgement page. |
The same as individual contributors. However, since an individual can list their company name a company with many volunteers to a project would see their company name listed multiple times on the project acknowledgement page. |
How are individual contributions acknowledged |
At the sole discretion of the project leader |
All contributors will have their name, email address, company (if desired) listed on the contributors page for the project. |
All contributors will have their name, email address, company (if desired) listed on the contributors page for the project. |
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Additional Comments
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