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On 04/22/2012 10:00 AM, Dan MacDonald wrote:

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> Consortium mailing list??

yes, please don't top-post.
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Patrick Shirkey > wrote:

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>> 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

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>> 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

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