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Subject: Re: advert on webcvs
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2004-02-25 7:56:15
Message-ID: 200402250056.16356.aseigo () kde ! org
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On February 25, 2004 12:29, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > however, for sites such as kde-[look|apps].org which also have a
> > *.kde.org alias that are privately hosted and are not core informational
> > repositories for the KDE project i don't see the harm. the fact is that
> > we have kde-look.org and kde-apps.org today because of sponsorship, which
> > translates into banners.
> >
> > our choices are pretty obvoius: have the community sites and accept the
> > reality that comes with being able to support them (e.g. in some cases
> > banners), fund them ourselves (would be nice, isn't a current reality),
> > or not have them. i'd prefer the second option, as i'm sure most would. i
> > don't think anyone would like the last option. so we are left, at least
> > for now, with the first option.
>
> Sure we most probably want them (not that we have any influence on their
> existance). But why must they then have *.kde.org aliases?
they don't have to, but it's nice to support our community, which we are a
part of. so.. it's nice to support ourselves and it's preferable to being
inflexible stodgy sticks-in-the-mud which doesn't reflect well on us nor help
build our community up.
> Still others might want to allow a static picture referring to the
> sponsor, although this quickly leads to quite ambiguous cases.
>
> Others want case-by-case, but that's cumbersome to enforce.
you assume "enforcement" is necessary. i don't think it is. relax, we're a
community not a conspiracy ;-)
> I think most would at least agree that animated banners are a no-go for
> any *.kde.org .
for the KDE Projects websites, sure... they are more "ours" (the people on
this list) than others which may be a part of the KDE family ..
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Aaron J. Seigo
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