Re: [Consortium] Advertising Policy - linuxaudio.org

Hi *, Personally, I am against any commercial for-profit advertising on *.linuxaudio.org domain and sub-domains. I suggest to use your own domain-name for doing so. As Ico already pointed out: "we cannot make money off the site unless we move to private hosting" -- private hosting equivalent to what vt.edu offers us incl. unlimited traffic, 3 hourly, 7 nightly and 4 weekly full backups of our 300GByte volume plus 24h support is probably >= $300 per month. I guess Ico could find out the exact numbers, though i suppose it's better not to ask :) Besides, linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit organization. As soon as we receive money - for any subdomain -, someone would need to spend the money and take care of accounting. Daniel who pays the DNS registration for linuxaudio.org every year would be on top of the list to receive a few beers from our first revenue. best, robin PS. some lac.linuxaudio.org pages do indeed feature links to sponsors which and may fall under the category "advertising". However, none of those is for-profit. The "sponsors" are institutions or companies who directly support the Linux Audio Conference - mostly with non-financial contributions: e.g. this year: LWN ran an ad-campaign for us; Stanford sponsored location, coffee, Nando & Bruno's time, etc; CiTu.fr allowed me to co-organize LAC while being employed there,.. For the record, the LAC is under the auspices of the institution that hosts the conference, linuxaudio.org is providing free hosting for the conference site to the benefit the LA community. Besides, all external links on lac.linuxaudio.org and wiki.linuxaudio.org are marked as rel="external" which defeats SEO to some extent. If you find some links on *.linuxaudio.org to commercial sites that are not rel="external", please let us know and I'll see to remove them. On 04/15/2012 02:36 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: