Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > > ******** sells single pki cards starting at ****€ > > (10 cost **** each). jcop dual interface starting at 1***€. > > At GOOZE we are waiting for plenty of new products and we make very > nice offers. > > I would like to make confirm: can we use the OpenSC mailing list to > announce special offers. For example, we may offer a discount code > to OpenSC members. > > Please make an announcement to make sure what is possible on the ML. > IMHO, this was forbidden, thus we never offered such possibility.
I think it is important to make room also for businesses and vendors who offer products and services related to open source projects. But maybe there is a better place than the opensc-devel@ list? In some projects there is e.g. a wiki page listing related companies and what they offer. I think it is very valuable for open source projects to encourage businesses to be visible within the project. It brings benefits to both parties. I agree that it is not really good to use the project mailing lists as a direct marketing channel, e.g. for sending a monthly newsletter or similar. But something like your signature is certainly OK, and it's a really good way to get a marketing "side benefit" whenever you contribute to the project, as you have done a lot already, by being active on the mailing list. This is great! If there would be some special offer e.g. in connection with a new major release of OpenSC then I think that would be very well received by everyone. But I guess the key is to not appear as spamming the list, by sending offers too frequently. I hope others can also offer input. //Peter _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
