Promotions Page?

[rgardner]

Should we have a webpage where students can find eboard-curated developer deals? 60% off on o'reilly books, software discounts, hardware deals, etc. Companies may come to us with these promotions themselves or we may find them on our own. I think there's value in posting these kinds of promotions, but we shouldn't make any guarantee to the company that we'll post it unless they pay us.

cc @ethanresnick @hahnbo

[AbhiAgarwal]

+1. Idk I don't think for student resources we should charge - I don't want us to charge for literally everything though (I guess we don't charge for our events so that's good enough)

[ethanresnick]

Abhi's working on putting together a package of resources for students looking to get started. It seems like discounts/software we want to offer could be included/promoted as part of that package. I agree that we shouldn't post deals for software that we don't endorse, at least not for free.

The whole resource package would probably be linked on the website somehow. We just need to figure out how we're going to grow the website to incorporate sub-pages in general. See discussion in #6.

[AbhiAgarwal]

@ethanresnick I would disagree with that for the list of resources. The point for me was to build something the community at NYU and further could develop - the point of it being on Github. So people can submit and change around resources, but only after submitting and getting them vetted. I think it's our move on doing something for the larger community and give them a place to get the right resources from people who are the best at those, and have been through each phase.

I wouldn't feel right putting some kind of "advertisement there". I know it's pretty necessary or a good thing to do it, but I don't feel like that would be it. Maybe we can make a separate folder within it for these type of promotions, but not as a part of the "guides". I agree with your point about the incorporation though.

[rgardner]

👍 @AbhiAgarwal I think we should distinguish between resources like 'Ruby on Rails Tutorial' and 'sign up for X service and enter for your chance to win a prize.'

The Rails Tutorial is a free resource (though I think paid books deserve a place on that list too) whereas 'X discount' is a promotion. I think there's value in both, but we shouldn't dilute the excellent resources with promotions (they should be clearly labeled and differentiated)

[ethanresnick]

Ok. Let's think more about this after finals.