On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:13:57PM -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 20:56, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Hmm, do we have a feasible source for the monetary investment for this? > > I'm guessing that something on the order of several million would be > > required? > > indeed... > > <crazy thought process alert> > > given that this is really a support service and support services are supposed > to be one of the "bread 'n butter" models of open source driven > business ......... i bet there's a business model in there somewhere ;) i > don't know if attempting to privatize it is really what we want, though.
I've been mulling on this idea a bit, of extracting the monetary support from the content itself... Using adsense as Mike suggests would be one way of achieving this, but it occurred to me, why not do it even more directly? Various online and print magazines and technical journals pay directly for content such as what we're talking about. Usually something on the order of $300-400 for a typical article. Maybe more for print magazines. Not necessarily enough to quit your day job, but certainly enough to make it interesting. Imagine that we got a list of topics that ISVs considering Linux ports have been concerned about, and then recruited the respective domain experts to write articles about them, and helped hook them up with an editor interested in running a story on it. We may also provide some peer review / editorial support; this could be especially critical for non-native english speakers or developers not yet confident about their writing skills. The deal we make is that we simply ask that they agree to place their article under a specific license that is compatible with the dev portal, about a month after publication, and that their article include a link to the dev portal. This way, the magazine gets a great article, we get a great piece of content for the dev portal and a link from a high traffic site, the writer gets his name out in print, a few hundred dollars, immortal fame in the dev portal, and the knowledge that in one small but significant way, he's helping push Linux adoption. And the ISV reader gains an interesting and informative article to read in his favorite 'zine, plus will be able to access that information in a centralized location ever thereafter. Bryce
_______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list Desktop_architects@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects