<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">As Brandon explained at lunch, it's supply and demand. If you have a limited number of platinum members, it makes it more enticing. We can have unlimited "general sponsors" but people/companies who want to be able to advertise they gave a little more, can do so.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Notice that in the original email, Addison Group wanted to be the sole founding sponsor - or some such thing. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brett<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Oct 17, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Jason Lee wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 10/17/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Brett L. Schuchert</B> <<A href="mailto:schuchert@yahoo.com">schuchert@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <DIV style="">Agreed.<DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>I like:</DIV><DIV><SPAN style="white-space: pre;"> </SPAN>- yearly</DIV><DIV><SPAN style="white-space: pre;"> </SPAN>- tiers</DIV><DIV><SPAN style="white-space: pre;"> </SPAN>- limited numbers in each of the tiers </DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>Why limited numbers? "I'm sorry. We'd love to accept your donation, but we're full up!" Unless you want companies to bid (for lack of a better word) for inclusion in a given tier. I think that might be more trouble than its worth, but I can be convinced otherwise... <BR><BR>-- <BR>Jason Lee, SCJP<BR>Software Architect -- Objectstream, Inc.<BR>JSF RI Dev Team<BR><A href="http://blogs.steeplesoft.com">http://blogs.steeplesoft.com</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">sc mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:sc@lists.okcjug.org">sc@lists.okcjug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/sc-okcjug.org">http://lists.okcjug.org/listinfo.cgi/sc-okcjug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://wiki.okcjug.org">http://wiki.okcjug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/okcjug/">http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/okcjug/</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>