Timeline for AWS will be sponsoring Ask Ubuntu
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| Jan 13, 2023 at 18:36 | comment | added | Random Person | Rosie, the sponsorship has ended right? | |
| Aug 20, 2022 at 1:00 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 29, 2022 at 20:34 | comment | added | iyrin | @C.S.Cameron Friend, Amazon is a not a store. It is a platform for ecommerce storefronts. Some of these may very well be operated by your neighbor. What qualifies as a "community" in 2022? Is it merely a matter of proximity? I see a lot of posts referring to AU as a community and it seems to be a fitting representation of what a community is. With this sponsorship you now know that when you purchase via an Amazon storefront you are in fact supporting your AU community. So I'm just going to go ahead and upvote this one for the AU community. | |
| Jul 25, 2022 at 0:25 | comment | added | Seth | @RandomPerson mm, gotcha. I still think that money benefits AU regardless of where SE uses it, merely because anything that floats SE also floats AU. But thanks for clarifying. | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 20:13 | comment | added | Random Person | @Seth You seem to have totally misunderstand what I meant. No, I don't want money and I am not here for money (nor are other volunteers). The point which we are trying to make is: The money which SE gets through sponsorship of AU should also be spent in AU (not in stuff like SO For Teams or any other random stuff (which are not really important to our community)). Our community has been requesting for an archive answer feature, but SE didn't make any visible efforts about considering the feature-request. | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 19:06 | comment | added | Seth | @RandomPerson Absolutely, but I'm not sure how that's relevant here. If you want to be paid from this sponsorship then you're not really a volunteer, are you? And how would you expect that money to be distributed? By rep? By # of posts? Across a million users? For something you already did for free of your own free will? Nothing about that argument makes sense and it really comes across as entitlement. When I volunteer somewhere, I don't expect to make money, even if I'm literally fundraising for an organization. That defeats the purpose. | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 11:49 | comment | added | Random Person | @Seth Let's not give SE all the credits. SE gave the infrastructure, but AU is nothing without volunteers. | |
| Jul 24, 2022 at 5:41 | comment | added | Seth | @Nmath What do you mean "the money goes to SE, not AU"? SE is AU. They host it, they update it, they carry the cost of running it and keeping it running. I have very mixed feelings about this for a variety of reasons, but to say that AU gets nothing out of this isn't true. Don't take the fact that this site has been provided by SE, for free, for over 10 years for granted. | |
| Jul 22, 2022 at 23:20 | comment | added | NotTheDr01ds | @Nmath Personally, I see this as an overall benefit/win to us as a community. Stack Exchange is a business; it has to make money to survive (it actually has to make a profit to survive, otherwise its investors will put their money elsewhere). We as a community ask, and answer, questions here as volunteers, but someone (Stack Exchange) has to pay the bills for development, infrastructure, benefits (health insurance, retirement, taxes, etc. for employees). Sponsorships/advertising is one way for SE to bring in revenue. It's fairly unobtrusive, and keeps the site going. | |
| Jul 22, 2022 at 18:45 | answer | added | cocomac | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 22, 2022 at 18:19 | comment | added | Nmath | How are they helping? This is just preferred advertising. The money goes to SE, not AU. And let's be real, Amazon isn't spending any money unless they think they are going to make even more money by doing so. The thing that bothers me the most about this is that the people who do the work on this site are volunteers. These volunteers get absolutely nothing from this arrangement and Amazon makes money off their free labor. And AWS gets free tech support for their paying customers. In that context, it's quite abusive. | |
| Jul 22, 2022 at 14:06 | comment | added | Luis Alvarado | I think they are mixing efforts here. I can see the not supporting open source or money not going to your town, but that is to be applied where it should. Here, Amazon is trying to help in a very nice way Askubuntu. I also do not like Amazon for specific technical reasons that are easier in other platforms (that most likely only apply to my workflow) but for stuff like this I thank them for their support and amazing collaboration here. | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 18:33 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | Every dollar spent at Amazon is a dollar not spent in your town or community. We should support our communities and our own well being and boycott Amazon and their (often) counterfeit products. Amazon already has a link on Ubuntu's favorites bar that users have never approved. Ubuntu is becoming a big Amazon advertising campaign. | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 7:42 | comment | added | Random Person | @ArturMeinild Don't forget to tag me. Please read this: thenewstack.io/what-the-fork-amazon | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 7:35 | comment | added | Artur Meinild | How does Amazon not respect Open Source? You're welcome to contest their statements, but some examples and sources would be nice to back up your opinion. | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 7:24 | comment | added | Random Person | @ArturMeinild I feel the downvotes are because of sponsorship from a company which doesn't respect FOSS and AU respects FOSS (it's just my opinion). | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 7:20 | comment | added | Artur Meinild | I wonder if the many negative downvotes come purely from the fact that this is Amazon, from general resistance against sponsorship, or a combination of those... | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 19:45 | answer | added | Nmath | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 15:18 | comment | added | Random Person | Helpful information to readers: What goes into site sponsorships on SE? | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 15:08 | answer | added | Random Person | timeline score: -6 | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/AskUbuntu/status/1549771131326025728 | ||
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