On Sun, April 22, 2012 10:28 am, Robin Gareus wrote: > 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. > 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... > 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 > > >>> 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." > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
