<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kieran Lal</b> <<a href="mailto:kieran@civicspacelabs.org">kieran@civicspacelabs.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Johan Forngren</b> <<a href="mailto:johan@forngren.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<span>On 5/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karthik</b> <<img style="border: medium none ;" title="send email to narakasura@gmail.com via gmail">
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I think the latter three are giving Drupal a very cheap/sleazy image. The Drupal association should not have to beg for money, but rather accept donations.
</div></div></span></blockquote><div><br>One of the reasons we are pursuing multiple revenue streams for the Drupal association is that donations don't work everybody.<br><br>In the forum post a Drupal evangelist pointed out that he was active in promoting Drupal in Ghana, but that he has no access to international payment networks. If we only offer one way to contribute to the Drupal association then we exclude many people in Africa, eastern Europe, and any other countries that PayPal hasn't been permitted to operate in.
<br><br>Many people would like to make donations, but they would like some benefits in return. We believe that there may be tax implications for offering benefits to donors. However, offering benefits to association members seems to be fine.
<br><br>27% of the respondents to the membership pricing survey are individual business owners. Their business models don't allow them the profits to necessarily make a donation or buy a Drupal Association membership. However, they might be willing to click an affiliate link when purchasing hosting for their customers. That type of contribution works for a certain segment of our community.
<br><br>Today, people are going out of their way to to come to the Drupal web site before buying Drupal books on Amazon. Each purchase gives us an affiliate payment and soon it could be enough to buy a new web server. This has been up for months, and yet there have no complaints. I don't know exactly why their haven't been no complaints, but I suspect that it's because those ads were useful to members of the Drupal community, and they were placed in relevant sections of Drupal web properties so that no one found them offensive.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Kieran</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for your prompt response and clarification. I'm a bit more friendlier to ads now, but I still do believe that Default drupal should not ship with 'drupal'-ads.
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<span class="q"><div><div>+1 for an ad-free d.o.<br></div><br></div>--
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