On 10/3/06, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm going to reopen an old discussion we already had many times... > I subscribed aMSN to the adSense program (http://google.com/adsense) > This will have us add google ads inside of amsn's website, I think it's not > agressive, I've seen it a lot, and > I don't find it agressive like other ad banners... > I hope everyone agrees with this. > These ads will generate funds, and I hope we'll be able to use that to buy a > domain and webspace with > godaddy.com (2000GB transfer per month, 200GB space... ).. this will allow us > to at least have a decent speed > for the forums... > Also, I'm hoping that if we can get enough money, we'll set up bounties.. > which means, for each bug (or commit) > a certain amount of money will be given as a 'reward'.. and I sincerely hope > that this will motivate people to > work a little bit more on aMSN... > Finally, the only issue with this is that google doesn't work with paypal, > their only way of pay is by sending > checks monthly to an address with the check labeled to an individual's name. > I gave mine. This, of course, > brings up the question of "do you trust me?".. I hope everyone trusts me to > manage that money... > Also, if we really get enough money, I'd like to give a small salary to > everyone participating, rewards from > time to time, etc.. for example, I'm managing the team (less and less), but > if I spend hours on aMSN everyday > talking about the issues, assigning tasks and answering emails, reviewing svn > commit logs, etc... but I don't > do any commit... does it mean I don't have the right to receive a small > amount of money ? This applies to > anyone else.. like Nowhereman, or snipe for example, they help in the forums, > they work on the userwiki (not > really:P WHERE ARE YOU!!! :p) but they can't commit anything... so maybe > they'll also need a little > encouragement.. > of course, all this, is only 'if we get enough money'... if we get 7$ a > month, and the hosting costs us 6.29$ > then we can't expect to give much rewards... > > Final thing.. IF this whole subject brings ANY trouble... people start > yelling, complaining, or anything, this > whole thing will be shut down entirely to avoid any additional problems. We > all know that with money comes > problems, well, I hope we're all mature enough not to be greedy, but if we > are, then everyone will loose... > > I'll post a poll, just to make sure everyone agrees... once the majority is > giving his ok on the subject (I DO > NOT WANT ANY FLAME WAR TO START), then we'll add the ads to the website... if > most people don't want this to > happen, then we'll drop the idea. > > *Add Google AdSense > - Youness > - Alvaro > > *Stay with SF and no ads > > > > > Hope to hear from you! > KaKaRoTo >
IMHO, this sounds like a great idea! Sf.net can be really slow sometimes, and I don't mind to earn some money... -- Regards, Thomas Geirhovd ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
