[OSM-dev] SotM ads for front page

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> On 16/05/13 13:05, Richard Weait wrote:
>
>  Sorry that you didn't get an ad on the front page then.  Obviously you
>> would now, because the policy has changed.
>>
>
> If policy has changed then could somebody please document what the new
> policy is so that I am able to apply it when considering your request?


That would be nice.


> Please stop trying to drag me into your ridiculous argument. You know as
> well as I do that you are just trying to make some sort of point with this
> request because the CWG vote on Monday didn't go the way you wanted.
>

No, I'm trying to grow the local community for the benefit of the
OpenStreetMap community at large.  I support the CWG decision.


> The truly silly thing is that the CWG vote didn't actually have anything
> to do with the ads getting deployed, because I had already done that a hour
> or two earlier, based on the fact that discussion had petered out, time was
> somewhat of the essence, and nobody had objected to my suggestion the day
> before that I merge the pull request to add the two ads in random rotation.
>

Ah, then there will be no problem with adding one more to the rotation.


> In any event there is clearly a difference between advertising an annual
> conference that expects to have hundreds of delegates and advertising
> regular small scale meetups - whether the event has a geographical scope in
> the title is clearly not the only thing that any policy would need to
> consider.
>

So you'll only place ads for non-recurring events?  Or that events should
only have ads once they expect attendance >n when it could be argued that
they don't need an ad?  :-)  You think the aggregate influence of multiple
events should be disregarded?  That sounds strange in the context of
somebody who adds pubs to the map one at a time over the course of years.
But then, I'm an anti-importist.  :-)

And I'm certain that we'll have higher attendance numbers once our ad is
up.


> But anyway, the summary is that I do not want, and do not intend to
> become, any sort of referee in this ridiculous pissing contest.
>

Sorry, I'm not interested in such a contest.  Please deploy the ad
promptly.  Time is of the essence.  I'm sure other events will want and
deserve prominent front page ad placement soon, as well.
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