2009/6/4 Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalin...@sil.org>: > > Well, I'd personally much rather see resources coming from another round > of funding by interested patrons like we discussed earlier and setting > up a goodies (t-shirts, etc) store.
That takes more effort than just adding a JS snippet to the page templates, and I don't think its an either/or choice :-) > I'm a bit worried about some ads reflecting badly on our community > goals ("A gazillion free fonts here" link) but the network of ads seem > to be FLOSS oriented. I guess it depends which ads come through and how > intrusive or not it is in the final design... Yes, I agree - we wouldn't want eg Google Ads showing ads for proprietary fonts on the site. > Also, is putting ads in line with the hosting and acceptable use policy > of our host @ the University of Oregon? I looked and couldn't see, so I've asked. > While we're on that subject I'd say it's useful to be as transparent as > possible about the way money interacts with our community: source of > funds and recipients while also recognizing the crucial non-commercial > contributions. Yes; I'm planning to make a TUG Libre Fonts Funds statement once OFLBv2 is done. > A fund for travels/meetups would be very useful too. Some of our core > OFLB community members wanted to go to LGM to talk about fonts and > interact with the others but sadly couldn't. Yes, although I think development is a priority at the moment.