[consulting] Drupal.org advertising proposals requested

[Kieran Lal]

On 5/28/07, Ashraf Amayreh <mistknight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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...


"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 Drupal.org and help the Drupal community greatly by
funding improvements and infrastructure for Drupal.org websites."

Two things we are looking for.
1) Relevant to the needs of Drupal community
-- I'd like to see a proposal that explains how Google Ads would be relevant
the needs of the Drupal community.

2) Placed in relevant sections
-- I'd like to see a proposal that includes offering advertising in relevant
sections.
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.

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?

If the answer is no, that's fine. Many people have provided thoughtful and
compelling reasons why we shouldn't do ads.

Cheers,
Kieran


Just my 2 cents ;-)
>
> On 5/28/07, Gerhard Killesreiter <gerhard at killesreiter.de> wrote:
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> > andrew morton schrieb:
> > > On 5/27/07, Earnest Berry < earnest.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Another thought, that kind of keeps both parties 50/50....what about
> > a
> > >> Drupal magazine?
> > >
> > > If the aim is to create a revenue stream from d.o then I think there
> > > are much simpler ways that could be achieved. While a Drupal magazine
> > > would be very cool, I think it's a bigger undertaking than the Drupal
> > > Association should be taking on at this point.
> >
> > Thanks. :)
> >
> > I think it is helpful, if people would look at
> >
> > http://association.drupal.org/about/staff
> >
> > when making general suggestions about what kind of stuff the association
> >
> > should do at the moment. We will of course want to expand the number of
> > permanent members and hopefully will be able to take on more complex
> > features in future, but currently there isn't much room for such ideas.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >         Gerhard
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