<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ashraf Amayreh</b> <<a href="mailto:mistknight@gmail.com">mistknight@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What about google ads and so forth? Shouldn't be troublesome to implement and may provide a good income. I'm surprised how anyone clicks these things, but I heard from a friends he gets a pretty large income from that...
</blockquote><div><br>"We believe that paid advertising that is relevant to the needs of
Drupal administrators, Drupal users, and the Drupal community can be
placed in relevant sections of <a href="http://Drupal.org">Drupal.org</a> and help the Drupal community
greatly by funding improvements and infrastructure for <a href="http://Drupal.org">Drupal.org</a>
websites."<br><br>Two things we are looking for.<br>1) Relevant to the needs of Drupal community<br>-- I'd like to see a proposal that explains how Google Ads would be relevant the needs of the Drupal community.
<br><br>2) Placed in relevant sections<br>-- I'd like to see a proposal that includes offering advertising in relevant sections.<br>e.g. When people go looking in the paid hosting forums explicitly to find a paid hosting service would it make sense to have ads there.
<br><br>Much of the knee jerk reaction against ads is because the many web sites are a in fact a cesspool of ads. The question we want the community to help us answer, is can ads be helpful to the community, and can it be relevant?
<br><br>If the answer is no, that's fine. Many people have provided thoughtful and compelling reasons why we shouldn't do ads.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Kieran<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just my 2 cents ;-)<div><span class="e" id="q_112d1e2dbc7d3ccf_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gerhard Killesreiter</b> <<a href="mailto:gerhard@killesreiter.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
gerhard@killesreiter.de</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>andrew morton schrieb:<br>> On 5/27/07, Earnest Berry <
<a href="mailto:earnest.berry@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">earnest.berry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Another thought, that kind of keeps both parties 50/50....what about a
<br>>> Drupal magazine?<br>><br>> If the aim is to create a revenue stream from
d.o then I think there<br>> are much simpler ways that could be achieved. While a Drupal magazine<br>> would be very cool, I think it's a bigger undertaking than the Drupal<br>> Association should be taking on at this point.
<br><br>Thanks. :)<br><br>I think it is helpful, if people would look at<br><br><a href="http://association.drupal.org/about/staff" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://association.drupal.org/about/staff
</a><br><br>when making general suggestions about what kind of stuff the association
<br>should do at the moment. We will of course want to expand the number of<br>permanent members and hopefully will be able to take on more complex<br>features in future, but currently there isn't much room for such ideas.
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