Edubuntu Sponsorship Process

[Jonathan Carter]

Dear Ubuntu Technical Board

Not too long ago, the TB approved Kubuntu's request to change their
primary sponsor from Canonical to Blue Systems.

In Edubuntu, we've realised that in order to grow the project, we will
from time to time also need some additional sponsorship. At this stage,
it is items ranging from development hardware to hosting for application
servers.

Currently we have one company providing us with our additional
requirements, as well as employee time during work hours which is quite
valuable. We'd like to provide some official recognition as well as open
the doors for more sponsors if more sponsorship opportunities become
available. In particular, we'd like to give sponsors the right to use
the Edubuntu logo on their site and state that they are a sponsor, as
well as providing a link bank from the Edubuntu website explaining their
contributions.

Unlike Kubuntu, we want to continue to acknowledge Canonical as
Edubuntu's primary sponsor. Canonical provides build infrastructure,
travel & accommodation for UDS for 1 representative of the project and
in many cases we've had Canonical employees fix some Edubuntu bugs.
Canonical also had full-time staff working on the project at some point.

The new sponsors would be listed after Canonical as secondary sponsors
to the project. The Edubuntu Council will review these sponsors on an
annual basis and once a sponsor has been inactive for a sponsorship
cycle, they will be moved to a "previous" sponsors page.

There's a description on what we aim to achieve on:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Sponsorship

The contents of the above link was agreed upon by the current Edubuntu
Council.

We would like the Technical Board to approve this process. Looking at
the Ubuntu trademark policy, it doesn't seem like it would be a problem
for sponsor to put an Edubuntu logo on their site and link it back to
the Edubuntu site. If we need to do some additional work there, please
let us know.

We want to tentatively go ahead with this, so it would be great to have
an official nod from the TB. If there's any objections or concerns, I
would suggest raising them sooner rather than later.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

-Jonathan on behalf of the Edubuntu Council