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On Sunday 22 May 2005 04:52 am, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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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 current sponsoring (the page is currently a bit outdated).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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I agree.. I've said for quite a while now that we should a) take away the |
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text under the ads, since for the most part it just reiterates what the ads |
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say, and b) figure out a way to randomly rotate their order... While I |
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don't mind the ads, I think fewer is better than more.. |
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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 |
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> we see as a Sponsor. |
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Sweet! When you get around to the OSL part, can you change the logo to: |
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http://osuosl.org/about/copy_of_logos/osl_logo/variant/medium |
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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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I like the idea, but it could get tricky.. First of all I wouldn't want to |
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post anyone's name without their prior permission, some people might not want |
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to be listed to avoid other people/projects taking the list and begging them |
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for donations. (the guy who donated $1,000 needs a freakin GWN article) :) |
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> If so, we might want to put up such a "Contributions" page on which not |
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> only 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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well, I guess I am still a bit confused as to where the line is drawn between |
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sponsor and contributor. |
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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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I don't know what our unofficial agreements are with these groups, but I think |
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some of them are giving us hosting in return for the adspace. Lance has been |
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working with some of them lately, I'll let him answer that. |
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Cheers! |
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Corey Shields |
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Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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