[Design] Banners on the Front Page

[Ian Dees]

There is precedent for non-OSMF events appearing on osm.org (and I imagine
the reason why the pull request was made in the first place). An ad for
State of the Map US 2012 was placed on osm.org 17-Sept 2012 [0], slightly
less than one month before the event.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20120917030615/http://www.openstreetmap.org/


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:
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>
> SOTM.EU in Vienna requested a banner. This was eventually rejected,
> because the annual foundation conference was also approaching. A clash of
> demands on the banner screenspace and more fundamentally, a clash of
> interests in which event to promote. There was some indecision and
> to-and-fro'ing from the board. A clear policy would've been good.
>
>
> That's not my memory. My recollection is that it wasn't an OSMF event, and
> we gave a clear 'no'.
>
> If we decide that it is open season on advertising events, I have no
> problem with that, but I would expect OSM PLUS to be treated equally.
>
> Steve
>
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