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

[Dave Crossland]

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