I think this is a really good idea and SPI should not have any trouble fitting into the acceptation criteria.
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org>wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > > Google has a Grants program in which they give some free advertising > > to some projects: http://www.google.com/grants/details.html > > > > This might be something for Debian to pursue. > > I proposed to do that via SPI (Debian doesn't exist as a non-profit > organisation on its own) so that supported projects could benefit from the > grant (if it was approved), Debian included. > > I was asked to bring this up on the SPI general mailing list, but due to > time restrictions I wasn't able to. > > On my original proposal I offered my time and help either to be the > representative or help whoever was appointed as such, but as it is obvious > this is no longer the case. > > So here I am, sending a copy to the SPI general mailing list so that others > can comment on whether they think their projects would be interested in > having such a grant via SPI. > > Whoever is appointed as representative needs to be familiar with the > Adwords > system and be able to get statistics from the advertised projects' > websites, > to properly monitor the results of the ads (especially for the report that > needs to be sent back to Google). > Although familiarity from the non-profit side is a plus, the Google Grants program will appoint someone knowledgeable with Adwords management to work with us. > > Any project wishing to benefit from it would need to be very cooperative in > multiple ways with the representative too. > > P.S. please don't send me a copy of your messages. I read the three CC'ed > lists. And sorry for the cross-post. > Cheers, > -- > Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer > www.debian.org - get.debian.net > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hlnsqu$c0...@ger.gmane.org > >