On 2009.11.24 02:47, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> Roy Bamford wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > The Gentoo Foundation Inc. has been approached by a few large
> > Gentoo users about purchasing advertising on the gentoo.org side
> > bar. They are not in the IT industry so cannot support us in the
> > traditional way, by donating their own product.
> >
> > The trustees anticipate that more approaches of this nature will be
> >  received and view it as a sign of Gentoo maturing.
> >
> > Recognising that this would be a break with tradition, by allowing
> > even major users to contribute to Gentoo in this way the trustees
> > determined to put the question to a vote of Foundation members.
> >
> > The recording date for the vote will be 29th November. To vote,
> > your Foundation membership must be approved on or before that date.
> >
> >
> > Voting will be from 1 December to 11 December, to enable the result
> > to be available for the next Trustee meeting on 13 December.
> >
> > The motion to be voted on will be Should major Gentoo users be
> > permitted to purchase ads on the sidebar - Vote yes or No
> 
> Roy,
> 
> are there any "limits" to the type of advertisements that the
> Foundation will permit? I expect that the Trustees will do some
> filtering regardless, but are we going to create a "policy" on the
> type of advertisements that are to be permitted?

The intention is to leave that to the trustees to determine on a case 
by case basis. A present, we only have applications from companies in 
the Financial sector who use Gentoo for their operations, so there 
will be little or no immediate change. We already have such a side bar 
advert from a Financial company that donates in the conventional way.

> 
> >
> > The trustees recommend that the motion on the ballot is supported.
> >
> >
> > On behalf of the Gentoo Foundation Inc.
> >
> 
> Although I consider this to be a significant change, I hope it won't
> affect Gentoo's spirit, that it may help foster support for Gentoo 
> and
> that we can make the best use of these resources for our community.
> 
I think it is a case of companies who have benefited from Gentoo 
wanting to give something back in a way that benefits both parties. We 
really need to make this sort of thing easier for them.  That's what 
the vote is about. 

It won't change Gentoos spirit - Gentoo will continue to be a community 
distro. It will make more resources available to allow the Foundation 
to help Gentoo grow.


> --
> Regards,
> 
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
> Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE
> 

Foundation resources will continue to be available in the way they are 
now. By application to the trustees.

-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
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