[OSM-dev] SotM ads for front page

[Mikel Maron]

Hi

Sounds like this issue should be directed to the CWG to discuss, and define the guidelines and process more clearly. 

-Mikel
 
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


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> From: Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>
>To: Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> 
>Cc: dev <dev at openstreetmap.org> 
>Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:21 AM
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] SotM ads for front page
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>On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
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>On 16/05/13 13:05, Richard Weait wrote:
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>>Sorry that you didn't get an ad on the front page then.  Obviously you would now, because the policy has changed.
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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?
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>That would be nice.  
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>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.
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>No, I'm trying to grow the local community for the benefit of the OpenStreetMap community at large.  I support the CWG decision.  
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>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.
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>Ah, then there will be no problem with adding one more to the rotation.  
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>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.
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>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.  :-)  
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>And I'm certain that we'll have higher attendance numbers once our ad is up.  
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>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.
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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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