Ubuntu

Donation recognition

Bug #121499 reported by k1gwb
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Ubuntu Website - OBSOLETE
Won't Fix
Undecided
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Ubuntu
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Perhaps a page online listing contributors, broken up into different sponsoship levels, would serve to recognize those who help the project financially, and encourage others to donate, as well!

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Corey Burger (corey.burger) wrote :

Mark, do you have any thoughts on this?

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Not an Ubuntu disto issue. Assigned to ubuntu-website.

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 121499] Re: Donation recognition

Sounds good in principle! I'll caucus around a bit before taking any
action though.

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Matthew Nuzum (newz) wrote :

To state the obvious, we'd want to use caution here if we're thinking about linking out to other people's websites. The Ubuntu websites have a very high page rank, and some people would see this as an easy/cheap way to boost their own PR by making a small donation. This was seen recently by an organization who made a donation to Kubuntu and who we finally decided to refund. They were apparently doing it to simply buy a link on a high profile website. (and their website was not one that we would want to affiliate ourselves with)

Simply listing the names of organizations without links wouldn't be a problem.

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Matthew Nuzum (newz) wrote :

This is quite old now. We've actually had problems with the kubuntu website doing this because organizations were effectively using it as a cheap way to link to their website for SEO purposes. Closing.

Changed in ubuntu-website:
status: New → Won't Fix
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