One way that could work is to have one spotlight and have it rotating
through anybody that qualifies. But that begs the question of who
qualifies.
Go check...
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http://eclipse.org
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http://mozilla.org
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http://apache.org
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http://fedora.redhat.com
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http://debian.org
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http://php.net
none of them have ads. The only ads are about things _directly_ related
to the community: conferences, t-shirts, DVDs/CDs of binaries built by
the community.
Now, blogs.sun.com/theaquarium CAN have ads, and I intend to do that
this week. That is because TA _is_ a SUN sponsored site. It is
intended to provide fair coverage of all news in the community but the
editors are Sun employees and we are very up-front about that.
- eduard/o
Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
> Indeed, I do fully relate to the opening of a pandora's box type
> situation here. And the associated risks to our products.
>
> I do think there are possibilities here that we may not want to miss
> given that this is a community wiki.
>
> I can talk with you about this in the 1x1 tomorrow if you are available.
>
> regards
> Shreedhar
>
> Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart wrote:
>> OK, so...
>>
>> JEUS 5 downloads... do they qualify?
>> JDeveloper downloads... do they qualify?
>>
>> If yes, why?
>> If no, why?
>>
>> You can tell my inclination is to get out of this tricky area... I
>> don't want to legislate.
>>
>> - eduard/o
>>
>>
>> Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
>>> Eduardo
>>> I see your point. And yes I added the promo image and link there.
>>> I think this is a good way to attract attention to interesting
>>> happenings even if it involves non-Sun parties.
>>>
>>> Here are some draft ground rules as you required :
>>> 1. The ads shall apply to only GlassFish community related projects,
>>> events and promotions.
>>> 2. Promotions should help the adoption and expansion of the GlassFish
>>> community
>>> 3. Ads cannot be for promotion of a specific company's or
>>> individual's commercial offerings related/unrelated to GlassFish.
>>> 4. Ads cannot exceed size limits as determined by the wiki management
>>> council.
>>> 5. Content inside Ads should not be abusive, discriminatory, and
>>> should not violate the laws of United States of America.
>>>
>>> Hope this is a good starting point.
>>> regards
>>> Shreedhar
>>>
>>>
>>> Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart wrote:
>>>> The front page of GFW.ORG now has a promo for the JavaEE SDK.
>>>>
>>>> I think we should discuss this. In principle I'm OK with adding it,
>>>> as long as we write down the rules under which we will accept these
>>>> Ads, the rules are company-neutral, and we follow them in the future.
>>>>
>>>> Another alternative is to not accept things like this.
>>>>
>>>> If I read the change log correctly, this was introduced by
>>>> Shreedhar. Correct? If so, do you want to argue for writing down
>>>> the rules?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> - eduard/o
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