[Foundation-l] Advertisements?

[effe iets anders]

this is not really an opinion, just an analysis of the situation. *if* there
would be huge financial trouble, we would have no choice, would we? (and to
be clear with trouble, I mean real trouble, not that we're not able to bring
the printed version out to Africa, that is all about priorities, and comes
in 2)-4).)

And as financial trouble are never fun or good, I do not buy it that people
will intentionally try to get there, just to get the advertisements going...

BR, Lodewijk

2008/3/18, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro op gmail.com>:
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:39 AM, effe iets anders
> <effeietsanders op gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ah, here the big question comes up :) What should be determining our
> choice
> > for ads or not... Just a few options:
> >
> > 1) Financial trouble
> > 2) Our core principles
> > 3) Our values
> > 4) Because the community favors it over donations
> > 5) Because the visitors favor it over donations
> >
> > Of course there are many more, but my stake here is actually that
> *first* we
> > should discuss 1), 2) and 3), probably too 4) and then we go to 5). If
> there
> > are financial trouble, there is little choice, and we'll *have* to,
> whether
> > we like or not. If there are no trouble, but the usual shoestring, then
> we
> > should see what our core principles and values have to say about it.
> > Finally, I think that in this case, the opinion of the community is at
> least
> > as important as the opinion of the visitors.
> >
> > I think both opinions will be measured in the UNU research? And as there
> > seem to be no threatening financial problems right now, 2) and 3) are
> left
> > in the open :)
> >
> > BR, Lodewijk
>
>
> I see several problems with this analysis, but in the interest of
> readability,
> I'll snip and save the bulk of them as a draft for later, and concentrate
> on
> the most significant one:
>
> If we take it as a given that the moment wikipedia succumbs to
> (momentary or long term) financial hardship, it will go all supine and
> welcome advertisements in, no questions asked, this will merely
> encourage those who for whatever reason (quite possibly the noblest of
> reasons - such as wishing to expand our charitable mission way
> beyond our original remit) find advertising to be a boon to WMF in
> (perhaps subconsciously; unwittingly) overreaching its operations.
>
>
>
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
>