Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 05/05/2009 05:15 PM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org
> <mailto:behdad behdad org>> wrote:
>
>     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...
>
>
> $145,000 would pay for a lot of hackfests ... if we sold ads directly to
> companies, we could control who was advertising.
>
> And if we are getting that much potentially paying traffic, we should
> have a nice, obvious link to Friends of GNOME on the home page,
> contribute and support page!

Back to "lets advertise ourselves", ruler and stuff? :)

behdad

> Stormy