Merge pull request #21 from tacaswell/gov_add_sponsorship

Gov add sponsorship

Author: efiring

funding.md

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+# Funding
+
+## Current
+
+- NASA (640k\$, 2022-2025)
+- CZI (250k\$, 2020; 250k\$, 2021; 381k\$, 2022-2024)
+- Microsoft (10k\$, 2021)
+- American Express (1k\$/mo 2021-)
+
+## Past
+
+- Simula / (10k\$, 2013)

governance.md

@@ -361,11 +361,17 @@ this situation, that part of the Partner’s work will not be under the
 Matplotlib umbrella and cannot use the Project trademarks in a way that
 suggests a formal relationship.
 
-To acknowledge institutional contributions, Institutional Partners receive the
-following benefits:
+In line with the sponsorship levels, an institution needs to provide at least:
 
--   Acknowledged on the Matplotlib websites, in talks and T-shirts.
--   Ability to acknowledge their own funding sources on the Matplotlib websites,
+-   6 person-months/yr of paid work time for one or more Matplotlib
+    maintainers or regular contributors to any Matplotlib team or activity
+
+to be an Institutional Partner.  In addition to the Sponsor acknoledgements as
+described in the [sponsorship
+document](https://github.com/matplotlib/governance/sponsorship.md),
+institutional partners can also:
+
+-   Acknowledge their own funding sources on the Matplotlib websites,
     in talks and T-shirts.
 
 

index.rst

@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ Matplotlib Governance Documentation
 .. toctree::
 
    governance.md
+   sponsorship.md
    deputy_project_leads.md
    people.md
+   funding.md
+
+.. toctree::
    templates.md
    communications_guidelines.md

sponsorship.md

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+# How Matplotlib will acknowledge financial support
+
+There will be two different ways to acknowledge financial and in-kind support:
+one to recognize significant active support, and another one to recognize
+support received in the past and smaller amounts of support.
+
+Entities who fall under "significant active supporter" we'll call Sponsor. The
+minimum level of support given to Matplotlib to be considered a Sponsor are:
+
+-   \$30,000/yr for unrestricted financial contributions (e.g., donations)
+
+-   \$60,000/yr for financial contributions for a particular purpose
+    (e.g., grants)
+
+-   \$100,000/yr for in-kind contributions (e.g., time for employees to
+    contribute)
+
+We define support being active as:
+
+-   for a one-off donation: it was received within the previous 12
+    months,
+
+-   for recurring or financial or in-kind contributions: they should be
+    ongoing.
+
+After support moves from "active" to "inactive" status, the acknowledgement
+will be left in its place for at least another 6 months.  If appropriate, the
+funding team can discuss opportunities for renewal with the sponsor. After
+those 6 months, acknowledgement may be moved to the historical overview. The
+exact timing of this move is at the discretion of the funding team, because
+there may be reasons to keep it in the more prominent place for longer.
+
+The rationale for the above funding levels is that unrestricted financial
+contributions are typically the most valuable for the project, and the hardest
+to obtain. The opposite is true for in-kind contributions. The dollar value of
+the levels also reflect that Matplotlib's needs have grown to the point where
+we need multiple paid developers in order to effectively support our user base
+and continue to move the project forward. Financial support at or above these
+levels is needed to be able to make a significant difference.
+
+Sponsors will get acknowledged through:
+
+-   a small logo displayed on the front page of the Matplotlib website
+
+-   prominent logo placement on <https://matplotlib.org/about/>
+
+-   logos displayed in talks about Matplotlib by maintainers
+
+-   announcements of the sponsorship on the Matplotlib mailing list and the
+    matplotlib Twitter account
+
+In addition to Sponsors, we already have the concept of Institutional Partner
+(defined in Matplotlib's [governance
+document](https://github.com/matplotlib/governance/goverance.md)), for entities
+who employ a Matplotlib maintainer and let them work on Matplotlib as part of
+their official duties.  Institutional Partners get the same benefits as
+Sponsors, in addition to what is specified in the Matplotlib governance
+document.
+
+Finally, a page on the website (<https://matplotlib.org/goverance/funding/>,
+linked from the About page) will acknowledge all current and previous sponsors,
+partners, and any other entities and individuals who provided \$5,000 or more
+of financial or in-kind support. This page will include relevant details of
+support (dates, amounts, names, and purpose); no logos will be used on this
+page. The rationale for the \$5,000 minimum level is to keep the amount of work
+maintaining the page reasonable; the level is the equivalent of, e.g., one GSoC
+or a person-week's worth of engineering time in a Western country, which seems
+like a reasonable lower limit.