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: > > 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. Unforch, that doesn't pay the bills to run the server if its not 100% donated. > 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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Horner's Five Thumb Postulate: Experience varies directly with equipment ruined. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
