From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4MBfwtt020205 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 11:41:58 GMT Received: from apate.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.57]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DZoqI-0003V8-RY for gentoo-trustees@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 May 2005 11:42:03 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apate.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 094BB38834 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 13:42:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from daikan.siphos.be (dD5E02E3A.access.telenet.be [213.224.46.58]) by apate.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B4E38310 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 13:42:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by daikan.siphos.be (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7BB412CD19; Sun, 22 May 2005 13:52:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 13:52:16 +0200 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-trustees@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-trustees] Advertisement requests Message-ID: <20050522115216.GB10492@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-trustees@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-trustees@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: e30654df-379a-4d1d-92b6-e9435fb60d4a X-Archives-Hash: 51971a6acc286d9f5d07a9c2981de432 --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all As you have noticed, Gentoo frequently (almost on a weekly basis iirc) receives requests for advertisement space on the Gentoo website. Until now, all such requests to www@gentoo.org have been answered like so: We are currently not looking for additional revenues through advertisements. The advertisements you find on our webpage are donated to the respective companies as a thank you or trade for their continuous support to the Gentoo project (hardware donations, bandwidth, ...). Some requests however propose a continuous support to the Gentoo project.= =20 My personal opinion has always been to decrease the advertisements on the Gentoo website itself and make the Sponsors [1] page more accurate with the current sponsoring (the page is currently a bit outdated). To facilitate the maintenance of the Sponsors page I have started documenting the current sponsoring (who sponsors what). Based on this (hopefully to become) complete information I would draft a guideline what we see as a Sponsor. Others would be then called "Contributors". Currently contributors are not shown on the Gentoo website since many contributions happen through PayPal donations. Would it be feasible to have all PayPal contributions (and others) listed automatically somewhere (like in KDE's donations page [2])? If so, we might want to put up such a "Contributions" page on which not only PayPal contributions but also other, non-Sponsoring contributions are listed. In short, my questions are: - Do we find it feasible to have a contributions page? - Should be decrease (or even nullify) the advertisements on the Gentoo website (and therefore denying all advertisement requests)? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/sponsors.xml [2] http://www.kde.org/support/donations.php --=20 Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>> --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCkHJwXfqz7M26L9sRAv2UAJ40UOHATlNecsM1JNC2gZrXbF9+RwCfTtIQ uPshpvK5a4OYkmp589TwU9E= =lTP+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB-- -- gentoo-trustees@gentoo.org mailing list