Re: [Fsfe-uk] RFC: Sponsorship

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-10-15 10:57:39 +0100 Andrew Savory <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> (There's been references by Mark to "opinions expressed so far" ... I
> haven't seen them on this list. Were they on the affs-cttee-cabal 
> list?)

No.  The subject line of the messages referred to there was "UKFSN 
makes a profit" and the archive is at 
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/fsfe-uk/2003-09/threads.html#00002

During that thread, people seemed keen on using the money for some 
sort of "award" or "prize" for other free software projects, 
discussing accounting in detail, but I don't know if anyone has acted 
on that yet.  It seemed that only one person suggested using it for 
AFFS running costs.  Other than "I believe that Marc..." you should 
have seen it all before.

> I doubt listings on our web site would be much incentive - we don't 
> get
> even near the amount of traffic the FSF/FSFE gets. (How much traffic 
> _do_
> we get?)

I didn't know, so I just threw the logs through analog for a summary.  
Output is at http://www.affs.org.uk/~mjr/webstats/ for now, but will 
be removed later (or when I get flamed for something in it).  Headline 
figure: 200 pages and 480 hits per day in the last week.

>   - how do we get their leaflets to AFFS events?

So far, it has been by people carrying them.  The 10000 uklinux.net 
sponsored leaflets were delivered to our LinuxExpo stand by 
uklinux.net.

>   - do we carry them away again at the end?

The 8000 uklinux.net sponsored leaflets were taken to Cambridge by a 
debian-uk member after LinuxExpo.  (I'm not sure if he wants his name 
published.)

> > Of course, any advertising should only be for parts of their business
> > not related to proprietary software.
> This would be difficult to police.

I agree.  Ideally, we should try to give some guidelines for how we're 
going to decide, but leave it as a case-by-case decision.  I guess 
that is why Brian put "should" rather than "must".

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