On 5/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karthik</b> <<a href="mailto:narakasura@gmail.com">narakasura@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thinking out loud:<br><br>a) Let inclined users support the Drupal project by displaying Google<br>/ whatever ads on their personal sites with all proceeds going towards<br>Drupal. An appropriate copy/paste snippet can be posted on
<a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a>.</blockquote><div><br>Cool idea. <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;">b) Ship the default distribution of Drupal with modules that generate
<br>revenue for the Drupal project. For e.g., similar to how the Mozilla<br>foundation apparently makes its daily fortune, Drupal could ship with<br>a Google search block that users could use instead of the Drupal<br>search module. All this would obviously require complete transparency
<br>etc..</blockquote><div><br>I'm strongly against this. It could work as an optional contrib module, but not in default profile.<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;">
c) Override the search module on <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> with Google's custom<br>search (or whatever it is called) - generate revenue and ease hardware<br>concerns. Kill two birds with one search, so to speak :)
</blockquote><div><br>That's not a very good way to promote the Drupal search module, right?<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;">
d) As I believe somebody has already stated, use affiliate programs to<br>generate revenue. Instead of pushing for advertising, perhaps<br>something along the following lines might prove more beneficial:<br> - Expand the recommended hosts page to include a
<a href="http://Drupal.org">Drupal.org</a> review<br>of each host's offerings. For e.g., support for LOCK TABLES, TEMPORARY<br>TABLE, clean URL support, safe modes and so on.<br> - This could also be used to perhaps push for PHP 5 support by
<br>making this a prerequisite.<br> - Include only commercial hosts with suitable infrastructure in<br>place. No lilliput 1 man shows etc.<br> - All links to the host will contain an affiliate ID that will<br>generate revenue for Drupal.
<br> - Give these pages an appropriate level of prominence on <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a>.</blockquote><div><br>I think the latter three are giving Drupal a very cheap/sleazy image. The Drupal association should not have to beg for money, but rather accept donations.
<br><br>+1 for an ad-free d.o.<br></div><br></div>-- <br>Regards,<br> Johan Forngren :: <a href="http://johan.forngren.com/">http://johan.forngren.com/</a>