I can't speak in the name of the entire council but here we go: THE CURRENT COUNCIL HAS NOT ANY PLAN OR WISH TO START USING BANNERS AS (PAID) ADVERTISEMENT.
Everybody in the current council, and most people in the community, are worried about how to keep maemo viable if Nokia pulls the funding but NOBODY in the current council has even suggested the possibility of using these banners as an inroad to introduce paid advertisements. Also, I don't even think the council would (or should) have the power to decide on this subject. Just to set the record straight: This banner idea didn't start in the council. It actually "happened" before the council had any saying on it. After we had already the competition banner up there, we thought would be bad for the community if anybody could just put a banner. We recognized that there should be a clear criteria to assure it would only used in the interest of the maemo community (open source, free, ...). Even more, some of us were actually against the banner idea all together but after discussing the issue we decided that the council should not try to interfere with a grassroots initiative. Rob took the lead and IMHO did I great job. He also invited feedback and acted on it. I think we all have spent too much energy on this subject and there are much more important ones. Finally, since the competition banner hasn't been adjusted to the maemo.org usage requirements and it seems that we haven't figure out how to include the other selected banners, wouldn't be better to just remove it? I think it has already served the purpose of showcasing the competition and I am afraid we just don't have the "infrastructure" to manage it. Felipe -----Original Message----- From: maemo-community-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-community-boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of Jeremiah Foster Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 8:41 AM To: List for community development Subject: Re: Banners on maemo.org On May 16, 2011, at 14:37, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:20 +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: >> I think the council needs to be more transparent about its intentions, >> statements like "even Maemo itself is not completely and specifically >> open source" are wrong and misleading. This is what leads many to >> believe that the banners are a step on the road to ads on the >> maemo.org site. > > I'd love to see actual proof for those "many"... You're not saying anything Andre. The point is that until the council comes out and explicitly states one way or the other, there is room for speculation. You can snipe all you want, that won't change anything. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list maemo-community@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list maemo-community@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
