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[Brandon Martus]

A message to the community of FIRST:

The Chief Delphi Forums, operated by the webmasters at Team #47 Chief Delphi, have been providing a communication tool for the community of FIRST since 1997. During this time span the growth of the site and the value to the FIRST community has grown many folds, as have the expenses to operate the site.

Given the current state of team economics and the anticipated growth in the upcoming years, we cannot absorb the site costs within the Team 47 budget any longer. We anticipate the site costs to rise as we improve and upgrade the site to meet the traffic demands of the FIRST Community.

In light of this we have incorporated banner advertisements as a method to offset the stress on our teams budget as a result of the website. Banner ads will fall within two categories:

Category 1: These are ads that are purchased by business to promote a product or service that is common to the community of FIRST. All revenue from these ads will go to support the site directly.

Category 2: These ads were sold by our students as a fundraiser to support their fundraising efforts for the coming year. These are referred to as “Partnership” banners that display a local business partnership with our team. All revenue generated will go to support direct student expenses.

All the ads will be displayed on a random/rotating basis at the top of each page.

If you would like to participate in this effort to advertise a product or service to support the site by purchasing a banner ad please contact Mike Martus at mmartus@chiefdelphi.com

If you would like to make a personal donation to keep this site running you may make a contribution using the “PayPal” button located between the banners. You will be listed as a Chiefdelphi.com web supporter on the advertisers page (unless your account is set to be 'Invisible') and for six months the banners will be hidden when you are logged in.

Please direct any questions, comments, concerns, or other inquiries to ads@chiefdelphi.com rather than replying here, PMing the moderators/administrators, etc.

Thank you;
Leadership of ChiefDelphi.com