<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On May 29, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Dan Robinson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">I'm not sure if you are responding to both ideas or only the job posting one. What if we had a "sliding scale" for job postings?<BR></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>How would a sliding scale work? In general, I'm not speaking to my own interest here, except as a Drupal community member. pingVision would likely be willing and able to pay a job listing fee. However, smaller shops, freelancers and people seeking consultants might not, and I think that would be a real shame. Yet charging some folks more or less based on some predetermined assumptions could take us down a road we don't want to go.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Taxing community behavior, I feel, could yield some unanticipated and/or unwanted side effects. Sponsorships, memberships, these could raise money without affecting the community dynamic -- and even help by opening avenues in which Drupal users who are not developers or designers can participate and help the commons from which they benefit.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Laura</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>