22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
11:15 a.m.
On Sun, April 22, 2012 10:28 am, Robin Gareus wrote:
On 04/22/2012 10:00 AM, Dan MacDonald wrote:
Correction USD $50
I asked for a clarification of the Policy for Linuxaudio.org in regards to
advertising. It was not specific to that one request as I expect there
will be a lot of businesses that would be interested in advertising around
the Linux Audio Community in the coming years. Due to the (imo) irrational
and hypocritical response I have received I am now very interested in what
other members of the community who are not part of the Consortium feel in
regards to advertising on Linux Audio related websites and content. I
would like to know how deep the resentment is embedded in the community.
It might help to explain a few other things I have noticed over the
years...
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.
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.
> 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.
All of these concerns have been addressed but all of the above is quite
seperate from the question being asked in this thread.
[1] http://linuxaudio.org/contact
[2] http://linuxaudio.org/policy
I'm still not sure why you don't want businesses to give people round here
money. Are you also advocating the idea that *no one* should make money
from Linux Audio?
Are you also adverse to all forms of advertising in relation to Linux Audio?
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
> 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?
>
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."