On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > 2009/4/13 Jon Phillips <j...@rejon.org>: >> This is good. He contacted me outside of OCAL as well, and I felt like >> it was a bit spammy at first. Then, I thought about more and >> considered it that it would allow for funding development. > > Affiliate marketing is a bit spammy, yes; its for raising their page rank. > >> Is it ok in your opinion to take funds like this and not decide with >> community consensus how they are spent? > > I think everything is open to community discussion :-) > > Right now I'm not sure what else the money would go to, though. We are > waiting on Ed, the sooner he can do his bits, the better :-) > >> I personally feel like if someone donates money through a person, that >> they can be allocated however the person sees fit. > > Well if *I* donate money, then *I* can say what it is for. But here > the donor doesn't care, and so we ought to discuss this, at least a > little. > >> I think Inkscape and some other projects view this differently, but as >> a web project, I think we have to consider how resources are >> allocated. >> >> I personally would love to see more of this to fund development. I'm >> not sure how I feel about the main page, but think that smaller >> irregular sums should be a on a sponsors/patrons page as you have >> done. >> >> For larger, regular sums, they could go on the main page footer or something. > > Okay, the patron's page it will be, then. > > Chris just said to me, > > "Unfortunately, linking logos has never been something we felt comfortable > with. We are more fond of simple text links to our page because we have > heard rumors that linked pictures can damage our website reputation and > popularity in search engines. + your current patrons will probably prefer > if there were less competitive banners on the page." > >> I think the main thing is to have an agreement about the dates for this. > > Okay. I've said 6 months, what do you think is fair? > > I've made a link at http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/patrons >
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