[OpenFontLibrary] New patron, but wants high profile link for small donation?

2009-04-13 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! Chris Reynolds ch...@webhostingsearch.com contacted Alexandre and I last month, about becoming a sponsor of the site. He would like to donate US$500 in return for some kind of link to his business website. I proposed a link to the site on the patron's page for 6 months, and Chris has made

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New patron, but wants high profile link for small donation?

2009-04-13 Thread Jon Phillips
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. Is it ok in your opinion to take funds like this and not decide with community consensus how they are

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New patron, but wants high profile link for small donation?

2009-04-13 Thread Dave Crossland
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

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New patron, but wants high profile link for small donation?

2009-04-13 Thread Jon Phillips
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

[OpenFontLibrary] Sample images

2009-04-13 Thread Schrijver
Hello! Last week I started a new quarter of teaching designing for digital media to graphic design students; And I would like to confront them with real-world projects in FOSS, like the OFLB Which I think is extremely interesting for graphic designers, who never understood why they had to

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Sample images

2009-04-13 Thread Schrijver
If they didn't make an image already, then please do make some :-) **1** I hope you might also consider teaching your students a little type design! :-) **2** 1 - will do! or, let do 2 - that would be sort of inappropriate since they already have famous type designers teaching them

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Sample images

2009-04-13 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi eric! 1 great :) all the fonts on the current site, but made with the new sites design in mind would be perfect :) 2 Oh wow, where is it you teach again? :) 3 its freedom vs proprietary control, not really non/commercial, since all the best libre fonts are paid for developments :) please see

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Sample images

2009-04-13 Thread Schrijver
Hi Dave! Hi eric! 1 great :) all the fonts on the current site, but made with the new sites design in mind would be perfect :) Well, we’ll see how far we can get :-) 2 Oh wow, where is it you teach again? :) The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands, who’s Dutch

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New patron, but wants high profile link for small donation?

2009-04-13 Thread Jon Phillips
Could treat like fundraiser and have set levels. http://rejon.org/2009/04/seeking-fabricatorz-laoban-sound-system-20-sponsorships/ On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009, Dave Crossland wrote: Hi! Chris Reynolds

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New patron, but wants high profile link for small donation?

2009-04-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 18:49 +0200, Ben Laenen wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009, Dave Crossland wrote: If you do want to mention a name on the front page then it should be something which randomly selects a patron, perhaps as a widget on the side bar, with a text like we thank our following