[OpenFontLibrary] New patron, but wants high profile link for small donation?

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/13 Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>:
>> This is good. He contacted me outside of OCAL as well, and I felt like
>> it was a bit spammy at first. Then, I thought about more and
>> considered it that it would allow for funding development.
>
> Affiliate marketing is a bit spammy, yes; its for raising their page rank.
>
>> Is it ok in your opinion to take funds like this and not decide with
>> community consensus how they are spent?
>
> I think everything is open to community discussion :-)
>
> Right now I'm not sure what else the money would go to, though. We are
> waiting on Ed, the sooner he can do his bits, the better :-)
>
>> I personally feel like if someone donates money through a person, that
>> they can be allocated however the person sees fit.
>
> Well if *I* donate money, then *I* can say what it is for. But here
> the donor doesn't care, and so we ought to discuss this, at least a
> little.
>
>> I think Inkscape and some other projects view this differently, but as
>> a web project, I think we have to consider how resources are
>> allocated.
>>
>> I personally would love to see more of this to fund development. I'm
>> not sure how I feel about the main page, but think that smaller
>> irregular sums should be a on a sponsors/patrons page as you have
>> done.
>>
>> For larger, regular sums, they could go on the main page footer or something.
>
> Okay, the patron's page it will be, then.
>
> Chris just said to me,
>
> "Unfortunately, linking logos has never been something we felt comfortable
> with. We are more fond of simple text links to our page because we have
> heard rumors that linked pictures can damage our website reputation and
> popularity in search engines. + your current patrons will probably prefer
> if there were less competitive banners on the page."
>
>> I think the main thing is to have an agreement about the dates for this.
>
> Okay. I've said 6 months, what do you think is fair?
>
> I've made a link at http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/patrons
>

3 months


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