On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:04 -0500, Oisin Feeley wrote: > * Ads should cohere with the goals of the Fedora Project: promoting > freedom and openness > i.e. we would not be interested in discounts on non-Free software or > training to use non-Free software. Definitely. > * We should not accept money for advertisements in order to maintain our > independence. > > * Ads should offer tangible, immediate benefits to Fedora Project > members as long as the other conditions are met. > So, for example, if LPI wished to offer a discount to Fedora Project > members we would run that too as it is likely to be of material > benefit to many members and does not promote non-Free software and is > distribution neutral. > > * Other Operating Systems or distributions are not of interest unless > they are derivatives of Fedora. > i.e. RHEL, Yellow Dog, BLAG, Aurora, MythDora > > I'm not sure about hypothetical situations involving non-OS-specific > discounts, say for example the FSF or EFF wished to extend some offer to > GNU/Linux users in general. I think that should not be a problem unless > it were to turn out in the future that more than, say, 20% of our > content was advertisements. That seems highly unlikely though. I agree with your proposed guidelines above. I'm not particularly interested in running ads. I doubt there are many potential ads, but I wonder if coming up with an explicit policy might invite more. This one seemed particularly relevant and appropriate, however to me it looked garish and out of place. I would prefer that it be a one or two line blurb with a link to a press release or something on the vendor site rather than a big chunk of commercial distraction in the text. That actually renders it more of a news item than an ad in fact. -- Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis GPG: 0xB098A0F3 0D5A 9AEB 43F4 F84C 7EFD 1753 064D 2583 B098 A0F3 _______________________________________________ Fedora-news-list mailing list Fedora-news-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list
