[Foundation-l] Advertisement and service at the same time

[Ray Saintonge]

Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> If Foundation would drop the world saviour attitude, drop wikimania
> which accounts a large part of the budget and first securing budget
> for running the site for a few years, then this nonsense advertising
> talk would not need to happen.
>
> Yes, it's good to think beyond. But you first must secure your
> immediate and more important goals (that is running the site) and only
> once you get past that point, when you don't worry if you'll be able
> to run the site next year, you may start thinking where to spend money
> that you don't have and only then,  think about putting advertising
> the site to afford those extra activities.
What you ignore is that a significant part of this debate is driven by a 
fear of advertising that verges on a pathological phobia.  I think that 
most people view the subject with a greater degree of pragmatism.

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