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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:

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> > 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

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> "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

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