22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
10:11 p.m.
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:
Unforch, that doesn't pay the bills to run the server if its not 100%
donated.
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. 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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