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On Monday, January 23, 2017 2:58:25 AM EST Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:35:39 -0500 |
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> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I think the concept is still sound. Linode used to offer a $100 for |
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> > documentation. That was so well received, they had to stop the program due |
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> > to the backlog. I would not suggest it for documentation etc. But a |
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> > newsletter, why not. |
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> I think it would be nice if there was an alternative way to earn newsletter |
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> access via contribution. Because it does seem strange to me to have to pay |
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> for a newsletter that describes what you're doing yourself in part. |
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Not paying for newsletter, paying for some of the content. Given an incentive |
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to spend time on something that may not be directly beneficial. |
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> It may be worth considering getting volume licensing, ie: advertise to |
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> companies to either buy a block of subscriptions themselves which they can |
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> grant access to X number of people. |
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Not sure what you mean by advertise. |
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> Or alternatively, instead of relying on a user-pays model in entity, have a |
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> corporate sponsorship scheme where we give out the newsletter for free, but |
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> a company foots a bill in exchange for some thanks/promotional/unobtrusive |
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> advertising. |
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Corporate sponsors will only sponsor Gentoo if they have a direct benefit. |
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Right now with how Gentoo is. There is no reason for anyone to give Gentoo |
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money, individual or corporation. |
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The more money is put to further development. The more reasons there will be |
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to donate or sponsor Gentoo. |
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> IDK. I'm just throwing out ideas and hoping something sticks long enough to |
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> be useful :) |
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Ideas are good, but to many toss out ideas not willing to do the work. Or |
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understanding what it will take to make such ideas come to reality. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |