Community Promotion Ads - 2012

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What are Community Promotion Ads?

Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.

Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?

This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:

cool site-related open source apps
the site's twitter account
scripts packs or power tools
cool events or conferences
anything else your community would genuinely be interested in

The goal is for future visitors to find out about the stuff your community deems important. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are relevant to your own community's interests, both for those already in the community and those yet to join.

How does it work?

The answers you post to this question must conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored.

All answers should be in the exact form of:
```
[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]

   [1]: http://image-url
   [2]: http://clickthrough-url 
```
Please do not add anything else to the body of the post. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.
This question must always be tagged with the magic community-ads tag.

Image requirements

The image that you create must be 220 x 250 pixels
Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)
Must be GIF or PNG
No animated GIFs
Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB

Score Threshold

There is a minimum score threshold an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.

You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats here.

This looks good, except I'm not seeing the tagline when I hover over the image with IE 8.
I strongly support open source, gdal etc. are part of my mandatory personal toolkit and I've been actively involved in osgeo4w for several years. Yet I don't feel comfortable with the over representation of open source projects in the current ad submissions (at the moment, only FLOSS is present in the tool category). At the same time, I wouldn't just add something for ArcGIS on spec (for one particular example), because, well, they can do their own darn marketing. They get enough money and publicity from me anyway. I don't have a solution to this conundrum. I just needed to voice it.

celenius · Answer 1 · 2012-01-02 13:02:02Z

up vote 20 down vote

answered Jan 2 at 13:02

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celenius

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I'm glad somebody finally put this up! Although should it have the name included? – Andy W Jan 3 at 20:49

@AndyW yes ... I wondered the same. It probably should, but should it also explain its function? Something like QGIS: Opensource Desktop GIS? Or just QGIS ? – celenius Jan 8 at 21:04

your the boss! I think either of those would be helpful, although what you have done so far is quite nice IMO, and there is no real pressing need to change it unless you (or someone else) feels like taking the initiative. – Andy W Jan 9 at 21:14

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I agree that it needs a little more clarification -- the logo is not sufficient for those of us who have never seen it before, and therefore less likely to lead to a click. – nmpeterson Jan 10 at 19:37

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2 revs Chad Cooper · Answer 2 · 2012-01-10 15:11:04Z

up vote 19 down vote

edited Jan 10 at 15:11

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Chad Cooper

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Rebecca Chernoff · Answer 3 · 2011-07-19 04:37:50Z

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link	answered Jul 19 '11 at 4:37 Rebecca Chernoff♦ 216110

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Ragi Yaser Burhum · Answer 4 · 2012-01-15 22:45:12Z

up vote 16 down vote

answered Jan 15 at 22:45

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Ragi Yaser Burhum

	Image size is 240x240, yet it still shows up. – Kirk Kuykendall Jan 19 at 1:33
	I got it from the postgis SVN, should I resize it? – Ragi Yaser Burhum Jan 19 at 7:32
	Since it works, I see no reason to. I guess 220x250 is a guideline. – Kirk Kuykendall Jan 19 at 14:18
	It appears SE scales the picture to fit, slimming down the elephant. – Kirk Kuykendall Jan 19 at 14:22
	A bit of a diet at the beginning of the year doesn't hurt, right? Although the idea of a skinny elephant seems a bit sad... – Ragi Yaser Burhum Jan 19 at 20:46

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2 revs Ragi Yaser Burhum · Answer 5 · 2012-01-27 23:04:45Z

up vote 16 down vote

edited Jan 27 at 23:04

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Ragi Yaser Burhum

	I've noticed on the main site because this image does not conform to the pixel standards, it is stretched in an odd way. It may be best to fix it (or shrink the image and pad it with whitespace?) – Andy W Jan 27 at 17:25
	I switched the image size. Hopefully it works better – Ragi Yaser Burhum Jan 27 at 23:05