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On 04/23/2012 04:00 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

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> On Mon, April 23, 2012 2:06 am, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>> On 04/22/2012 04:04 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

>>>

>>> On Sun, April 22, 2012 12:52 pm, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:

>>>> On 04/22/2012 05:13 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

>>>>> Do other people here have any strong opinions on the usefulness of

>>>>> advertising in the Linux Audio community?

>>>>

>>>> Yes. I completely adhere to Robin's stance.

>>>

>>> You do realise that many of the tools being produced by the Linux Audio

>>> Community are being used in the advertising industry which makes us all

>>> complicit in supporting it to start with.

>>>

>>> IMO we cannot avoid that fact that advertising and marketing is a very

>>> crucial component to global industry which enables the corporate world

>>> to

>>> continue to function. We should seek to manage our own channel and

>>> therefore the message and brand rather than avoid it all together out of

>>> some ridiculous fear of becoming Evil.

>>

>> Sorry, it is not ridiculous at all.

>

> The liklihood of the Linux Audio community succumbing to the evils of the

> mighty dollar is pretty ridiculous.

I'm specifically talking about linuxaudio.org, not the global linux

audio community.
>  We have too many checks and balances

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> and are not afraid to call a spade a spade. We are certainly not beholden

> to anyone else's agenda afaict.

Correct. It is fantastic to work in such a community. But that does not

predict the future. I would think you underestimate how money can change

people and communities (for the better and for the worse).
>>> We may even make enough money in

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>>> the process to pay some of our community members and help them to be

>>> productive and motivated.

>>

>> Managing our channel? Sorry, I don't quite understand. Do you mean

>> advertising our message on __other__ sites? What is "our message"?

>>

>

> The message is whatever we want it to be. If the message is that Linux

> Audio is *only* interested in non profit, volunteer or barely breaking

> even financial support from educational institutes then I guess we have

> already defined it and there is nothing more to be done.

I think the question originally asked about adding advertising to

linuxaudio.org _specifically_. That is what I answer in this thread. No

more. No less.
You ask about something very specific ("linuxaudio.org") and then apply

my answers to the world ("linux audio" - note the omission of org).

Please don't do that, that is not what I wrote, not what I meant. Of

course advertising has a place in commercial linux audio sites. If those

sites want that, then they should use that resource. And then users (and

the world) will or will not flock to them.
-- Fernando

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