[LAU] poll : Advertising vs Linux Audio

[gene heskett]

On Sunday, April 22, 2012 04:02:05 PM S. Massy did opine:

> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:28:34AM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> > I'm not a member of the management-board; but my recommended reply to
> > potential commercial businesses would be: "We don't want your money,
> > we want your support, your cooperation and compliance. - We're happy
> > to link to your site if it offers useful information, specs, software
> > or supports linuxaudio - but we won't sell links."
> 
> I join in with the chorus in agreeing here. I don't think advertising is
> particularly evil, but I do *not* think it belongs on the community
> centre corkboard.
> 
> Another point is, if a company is Linux-friendly, it shouldn't have to
> pay to be listed, it should pretty much be automatic.

Unforch, that doesn't pay the bills to run the server if its not 100% 
donated.

> If we want random
> "spots" on linuxaudio.org, why not compile a roster of friendly
> companies, useful projects and websites and display one randomly on
> every page load?

I would modify that by making the link to that list quite visible, but the 
random display would be chosen to only show those companies or vendors who 
have actually purchased a ticket to the show by actually supporting the 
site with either money or materials.

Set the ticket price in "kind", and if someone wants to improve his/her 
odds of being shown, they get to buy another ticket, doubling their odds of 
getting the hit. 3 tickets triples etc, but like all good things, it should 
expire in say 30 days per ticket.  Above all, you don't want to appear to 
have sold out.

Cheers, Gene
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