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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> 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. >> 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 >> 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
