> * Ads should cohere with the goals of the Fedora Project: promoting
> freedom and openness
> i.e. we would not be interested in discounts on non-Free software or
> training to use non-Free software.
Definitely.
> * We should not accept money for advertisements in order to maintain our
> independence.
>
> * Ads should offer tangible, immediate benefits to Fedora Project
> members as long as the other conditions are met.
> So, for example, if LPI wished to offer a discount to Fedora Project
> members we would run that too as it is likely to be of material
> benefit to many members and does not promote non-Free software and is
> distribution neutral.
>
> * Other Operating Systems or distributions are not of interest unless
> they are derivatives of Fedora.
> i.e. RHEL, Yellow Dog, BLAG, Aurora, MythDora
>
> I'm not sure about hypothetical situations involving non-OS-specific
> discounts, say for example the FSF or EFF wished to extend some offer to
> GNU/Linux users in general. I think that should not be a problem unless
> it were to turn out in the future that more than, say, 20% of our
> content was advertisements. That seems highly unlikely though.
I agree with your proposed guidelines above.
I'm not particularly interested in running ads. I doubt there are many
potential ads, but I wonder if coming up with an explicit policy might
invite more.
This one seemed particularly relevant and appropriate, however to me it
looked garish and out of place. I would prefer that it be a one or two
line blurb with a link to a press release or something on the vendor
site rather than a big chunk of commercial distraction in the text. That
actually renders it more of a news item than an ad in fact.
--
Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis
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