[ale] [Fwd: Advertising on ale.org]

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 08/05/2015 05:55 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> There's that issue. ALE is a non-entity. It has no expenses or income. The
> meetup stuff for ALE I paid for personally as a donation to process I care
> about.
> 
> We don't charge dues and should probably keep it that way.
> 
> For sake of argument only, lets say we get $10/month from a source we're OK
> with. What would we do with the funds?

There are tax implications for you if there is any exchange of money,
but I'm not certain how a $10 in cash exchange or pre-paid VISA would be
seen.

However, if $10/month came in, I'd like to see it go towards the meetup
costs first - that way you can afford more beer for yourself and your
family.

If there was excess money beyond that, video/audio recording gear.
Every meeting should be recorded and posted. People have been asking for
this for about 5 yrs. Sure streaming live is sexy, until you try to
participate and realize the resolution and audio is poor - making it
impossible to hear and impossible to see the screen.

I'm very close on a video recording setup for stuff like this.  The
specialized HW costs about $130. If I wasn't late to the last meeting, I
would have tried to setup the recording equipment.



> On Aug 5, 2015 5:50 PM, "Michael Still" <stillwaxin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well something that should be considered is where does the revenue go that
>> is generated from the ads? Jim's paypal account? Cover some kind of
>> overhead? AFAIK there is no legal entity for ALE and in order to receive ad
>> revenue this would have to be figured out.
>>
>> I'd say it's not worth the time right now to bother with this myself.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>>
>>> I would be willing to vet anything that is remotely dynamic, but we
>>> shouldn't allow any sort of ads which use JS or Flash, just text, image, or
>>> html5 video without audio. Again, just my 2 cents.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On Aug 5, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Jim,
>>>>
>>>> Tuesday, August 4, 2015, 6:19:47 PM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm inclined to say "No!'
>>>>
>>>> I'm inclined to believe that said advertising would come bundled with
>>> malware.
>>>>
>>>> --