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Hi all |
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As you have noticed, Gentoo frequently (almost on a weekly basis iirc) |
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receives requests for advertisement space on the Gentoo website. Until now, |
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all such requests to www@g.o have been answered like so: |
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We are currently not looking for additional revenues through |
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advertisements. |
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The advertisements you find on our webpage are donated to the respective |
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companies as a thank you or trade for their continuous support to the |
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Gentoo project (hardware donations, bandwidth, ...). |
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Some requests however propose a continuous support to the Gentoo project. |
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My personal opinion has always been to decrease the advertisements on the |
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Gentoo website itself and make the Sponsors [1] page more accurate with the |
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current sponsoring (the page is currently a bit outdated). |
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To facilitate the maintenance of the Sponsors page I have started |
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documenting the current sponsoring (who sponsors what). Based on this |
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(hopefully to become) complete information I would draft a guideline what we |
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see as a Sponsor. |
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Others would be then called "Contributors". Currently contributors are not |
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shown on the Gentoo website since many contributions happen through PayPal |
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donations. Would it be feasible to have all PayPal contributions (and |
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others) listed automatically somewhere (like in KDE's donations page [2])? |
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If so, we might want to put up such a "Contributions" page on which not only |
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PayPal contributions but also other, non-Sponsoring contributions are |
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listed. |
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In short, my questions are: |
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- Do we find it feasible to have a contributions page? |
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- Should be decrease (or even nullify) the advertisements on the Gentoo |
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website (and therefore denying all advertisement requests)? |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/sponsors.xml |
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[2] http://www.kde.org/support/donations.php |
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