[consulting] Drupal.org advertising proposals requested

[Johan Forngren]

On 5/29/07, Kieran Lal <kieran at civicspacelabs.org> wrote:
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> On 5/29/07, Johan Forngren <johan at forngren.com> wrote:
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> > On 5/29/07, Karthik < narakasura at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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> One of the reasons we are pursuing multiple revenue streams for the Drupal
> association is that donations don't work everybody.
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> 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.
>
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieran
>

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.

+1 for an ad-free d.o.
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