Re: [gentoo-trustees] Advertisement requests

[Lance Albertson]

On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 21:47 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:

> And if you'd receive 10 valid requests, would we increase the amount of
> advertisements on our website again? And for how long do we state that the
> advertisements last?

Thats a good question for down the road. Preferably if we went to the
text-only ads (as mentioned in bug #93588 [1]), it wouldn't be as much
of a problem. I'd say the ads last as long as the service stands and as
long as we don't have any issues with the sponsor. Also, we don't have
to take every single hardware offer we get if we don't need it.

> You mentioned possible randomizing the position; do you also mean mixing
> (like only showing a few of all available ones) or do we have a promise that
> the ad is always visible)?

Well, orginally just mixing the order for all ads. But if we get to the
point where we have a lot of ads, we could go the route of only show X
number of ads in a rotation.

> I can understand that, for continuous support, an advertisement stays until
> the support is over. What about one-time (but quite large) donations? Or
> is that not a possible target?

To me this would put the donation in more of a contributor rank and
file. Any information about the company would only show on the sponsor
page (plus a GWN article most likely thanking for their contribution).

For example, the IBM donation that corey mentioned about. It's best to
put the acknowledgement for that on the sponsors page.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93588#c3
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