Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 05/05/2009 05:05 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it.
>
> What would people think of trying it out for a couple of months? We
> could start with Google ads to see how well ads work and once we have an
> idea of how much to expect, we could solicit ads directly from companies.

It's one of those holes I don't think we want to get down into.  But I don't 
have strong reasons for, other than sanity.  It just feels bad IMO...

behdad

> Stormy
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org
> <mailto:jaap haitsma org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I was reading that the GNOME foundation is in need of some more
>     funding [1]. What about putting advertisements on the GNOME websites?
>     According to this [2] www.gnome.org <http://www.gnome.org> could
>     have an annual revenue of
>     145K$. Maybe that is a bit to optimistic but even if it is only 10% of
>     that amount it is still a considerable amount of money that can be
>     made every year.
>
>     What do you think?
>
>     Jaap
>
>
>     [1]
>     http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-April/msg00058.html
>     [2] http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.gnome.org
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