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On Sun, April 22, 2012 10:28 am, Robin Gareus wrote:

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> 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

>> >> 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)  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

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> 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.
>

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> [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

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