{"id":2366,"date":"2013-07-15T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2013-08-31T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:18:43","slug":"advertisings-acceptable-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"Advertising&#8217;s acceptable face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kde.org\/\">KDE<\/a> is one of the 2 major providers of <acronym title=\"Graphical User Interface\">GUI<\/acronym>s and applications for Linux systems (<em>some KDE applications are also now available for Windows too! Ed.<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s currently holding the <a href=\"http:\/\/akademy2013.kde.org\/\">KDE Akademy 2013<\/a>, a free, non-commercial event organised by the KDE community, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bilbao\">Bilbao<\/a> in the Basque Country of Northern Spain from 13th to 19th July.<\/p>\n<p>The local public transport company has also picked up on this event and is advertising it on its ticket machines; and in 3 languages too!.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2367\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/akademy_bilbao.jpeg\" alt=\"image of Bilbao public transport ticket machine\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/akademy_bilbao.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/akademy_bilbao-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free software advertising &#8211; Bilbao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Would London Underground or the UK&#8217;s train operating companies do likewise?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written before of my dislike of advertising (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2343\" title=\"Recommended: AdBlock Edge\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>), but advertising for community-based projects &#8211; even if those communities are scattered throughout the world &#8211; is something for which I&#8217;ll make an exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDE is one of the 2 major providers of GUIs and applications for Linux systems (some KDE applications are also now available for Windows too! Ed.). It&#8217;s currently holding the KDE Akademy 2013, a free, non-commercial event organised by the KDE community, in Bilbao in the Basque Country of Northern Spain from 13th to 19th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,32,17,5,9],"tags":[19,22,33,12,23],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-media","category-oddities","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}