22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
10:29 a.m.
On 04/22/2012 10:00 AM, Dan MacDonald wrote:
Consortium mailing list??
yes, please don't top-post.
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
The context:
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/consortium/2012-April/thread.html
in short:
Someone offered Patrick (the current content maintainer of
lau.linuxaudio.org) $50 AUS for placing an advertisement on
lau.linuxaudio.org for 1 year.
A few linuxaudio.org board-members [1] who according to policy [2] can
make decisions chimed in and opposed paid advertising for various reasons:
- bureaucratic overhead; someone needs to take care of accounting
- hosting: our current host vt.edu does not allow advertising
- political reasons: oppose online-marketing: person-tracking, keep
the community safe from deceptive practices.
[1] http://linuxaudio.org/contact
[2] http://linuxaudio.org/policy
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some of you may know that we are having a discussion on the Consortium
> mailing list at the moment about the role of advertising in the Linux
> Audio Community. Specifically the discussion is focused around the
> possibility of having some paid ads on a *couple* of the subdomains that
> are hosted at Linuxaudio.org.
>
> The views for and against appear to be very polarised. I would like to
> know what other people who may not be monitoring the Consortium list have
> to say about this topic.
>
> One camp feels that advertising is an evil blight on humanity and should
> be avoided "where ever" possible. Although that appears to be a flexible
> "where ever" due to having supported advertising by some supportive
> companies in the past.
>
> The other camp thinks that advertising can be a useful way for the Linux
> Audio Community to promote brands that support Linux Audio and by
> association increase the general public awareness of the viability of
> using Linux Audio as a business platform and another way to potentially
> raise funds which can be used to advance the entire platform.
> > Do other people here have any strong opinions on
the usefulness of
> advertising in the Linux Audio community?
>
> Should it be avoided like the plague or does it have some value that can
> be integrated provided we set some boundaries?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd
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."
2c,
robin