Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-09 Thread Jonne Zutt
Yes, I guess so, turning back to normal again. Or is that because of Youness email and everybody is checking :)) On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 13:10 +0300, Vivia Nikolaidou wrote: > afaik yesterday it *was* down... well, not down, but it was awfully slow, > you had to try hard in order to visit one page.

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-09 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
afaik yesterday it *was* down... well, not down, but it was awfully slow, you had to try hard in order to visit one page. Dunno how long it lasted... On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Youness Alaoui wrote: > http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=54091&ugn=amsn&type=prweb > Is something wr

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-09 Thread Youness Alaoui
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=54091&ugn=amsn&type=prweb Is something wrong Is it that SF was down for a while today or is it that people decided not to visit our website now that we have ads... KKRT On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:15:00PM +0200, Philippe Valemb

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-07 Thread Philippe Valembois - Phil
*Add Google AdSense and move to a better server - Youness - Alvaro - Phil *Stay with SF and no ads - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to s

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-07 Thread Youness Alaoui
update.. I made it more or less agressive.. I moved the ads lower, I removed the lower search box, I removed the links ads for firefox and google toolbar from the links block and I moved the advertisments blocks to a lower place... I also re-added the help block... One thing though, I added a

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-04 Thread Youness Alaoui
ctober 04, 2006 7:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion... > > > > sorry, I rectify.. we have the right to : > > > > PER PAGE.. so we can also have two in the forums.. if someone knows how to > > add that to the forums, PLEASE do > > s

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-04 Thread Youness Alaoui
I agree that the lower one is out of place.. it's because I was unable to position it correctly with all that CSS stuff.. it is optional, so we might remove it later on.. for now we'll test and see how it works with all that.. and I'm probably not the best one with layout design, so someone s

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-04 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi, if you don't like the idea of being paid, then don't :p you do it for fun, cool, others are not motivated and they might be motivated with a little money.. or just for the fun of "I can get paid"... About godaddy, I didn't take any subscription there, we're still waiting to see which hosti

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-04 Thread Philippe Valembois - Phil
Hi, I don't like the idea to be paid for the work I do on aMSN... Don't forget aMSN is for most of us a hobby and nothing more... For me, if we have too much money we can keep it in safe for days where we could need it... And don't forget : for now you decided to take subscription to godaddy.com

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-04 Thread Boris Faure (aka billiob)
Hi all !! I still don't have an internet connection at home, that's why i wasn't taking part on amsn those days. POLL : *Add Google AdSense - Youness - Alvaro - JeeBee - billiob *Stay with SF and no ads - *Don't care - Jerome - Vivia - Arieh PS: i still love you J :) Greets -- B

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-04 Thread Arieh Schneier
Hey, As it seems with a number of others, its been a while since I've had time to work on amsn, although I'm hoping things will calm down and I will be able to do more. I thought I'd still give my 2 cents (not that it is going to count for much if you see where I put my name), and at least show t

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-04 Thread NoWhereMan
- Original Message - From: "Youness Alaoui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailing list for developers and everyone helping AMSN" Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion... > Anyways, I added it to the website

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-04 Thread NoWhereMan
- Original Message - From: "Youness Alaoui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailing list for developers and everyone helping AMSN" Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:43 AM Subject: Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion... > sorry, I rectify.. we have the right t

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
Anyways, I added it to the website... can someone please please review the code.. I 'tried' to make it work with CSS and the html/php.. it renders well in opera, firefox, IE... Jerome, can you look at it with safari ? other users, with konqueror.. etc... I had to change the CSS as it seems it

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
I also agree on that, unless someone becomes a dictator (6) :D but yes, the purpose is to increase productivity not start flaming.. competition is good, but as long as it's in a good spirit... For now, we should decide if it's ok to do this or not.. how to share the money will come afterwards...

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
sorry, I rectify.. we have the right to : PER PAGE.. so we can also have two in the forums.. if someone knows how to add that to the forums, PLEASE do so... and btw.. the search can only be on a domain, not on a path, so the search will be on amsn.sf.net not amsn.sf.net/forums... (I tried,

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
Yep, I agree, it is not easy/impossible... Also, about those rules, I do agree about it 'in theory'.. but I feel 'in practice', it will only generate another start of lazyness if we have to add procedures before being able to do something... + someone might want to work on something out of the

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
Hi, We must find a way to share the money, something everyone will agree upon, and something more specific than "who contributes the most". Otherwise, we might end up arguing about "who deserves more money", which will eventually decrease productivity. Personally, I don't care. I was about to add

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
On 10/3/06, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > btw, we have the right to : > 3 ad units (like the one in the side bar) > 2 google search > 1 links unit > I don't know how many referals allowed.. The second google search must be on the forum !!! I can't stand their awful search fun

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Álvaro J. Iradier
I suggested bounties because it's not easy (if not impossible) to decide who should be rewarded. We should make clear rules for the bounties, so you need to register before starting to work on them (one person or a tema), and once the goal is completes, he/she/they will be paid. We don't want this

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn
I am sure people will click on it just for you to get « a click ».I often do that for website that i like.2006/10/3, Philippe Valembois - Phil < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:It was only to warn you...After, I hope SF won't say anything PhilLe Tuesday 03 October 2006 20:14, Youness Alaoui a écrit:> Well,

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Álvaro J. Iradier
I prefer not to insert ads in sourceforge. Greets. On 10/3/06, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, how about we try this for a couple of days, then see how much revenue > it gives, then decide whether we > get a hosting service... if after a week, we get 10cents.. then forget it, i

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Thomas Geirhovd
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 se

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
POLL : *Add Google AdSense - Youness - Alvaro - JeeBee *Stay with SF and no ads - *Don't care - Jerome - Vivia - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
I added a google search on the top of the side bar.. looks really nice I think if we remove the 'Advertisements' block, keep the ads in the bottom and both google search boxes in the website, it will be awesome. Not too agressive. What do you think ? if no answer by tomorrow, we'll move that to

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Philippe Valembois - Phil
It was only to warn you... After, I hope SF won't say anything Phil Le Tuesday 03 October 2006 20:14, Youness Alaoui a écrit : > Well, how about we try this for a couple of days, then see how much revenue > it gives, then decide whether we get a hosting service... if after a week, > we get 10c

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
Well, how about we try this for a couple of days, then see how much revenue it gives, then decide whether we get a hosting service... if after a week, we get 10cents.. then forget it, if we get 10$, then cool, let's do it... + SF will never notice if we do it for a short period.. and we're not

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Philippe Valembois - Phil
Hi, sorry You can forget this idea Youness : from https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4297&group_id=1#acceptable_use Advertisements and Commercial Usage: The SourceForge.net project web service may not be used for advertising (including Google Ads and other banner ad servic

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
Take a look here : http://amsn.sourceforge.net/ind.php I put a lot of ads... 2 referal buttons in the Links section.. added an ad unit in the side panel under Advertisements, added a google search in the bottom (I like that, even if it doesn't bring in any money.. you just search for 'seek we

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread NoWhereMan
- Original Message - From: "Youness Alaoui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 n

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:47:18AM +0200, Jonne Zutt wrote: > The forum and bugs site have terrible performance. > (for the bugs site is not completely sf's fault I think, because > I made a local copy and it performed terrible either, could be my > local configuration too...yes, i know the databas

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:30:04AM -0400, Jerome Gagnon-Voyer wrote: > I haven't answer in months but still..i'm here and I love you all. > moi non plus :p > Well...I have AdSense on my blog...and I think this is not enough money. We > thing ads are a big deal but ... no. We won't get a

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Jonne Zutt
The forum and bugs site have terrible performance. (for the bugs site is not completely sf's fault I think, because I made a local copy and it performed terrible either, could be my local configuration too...yes, i know the database is quite big) Could be Jerome is right it doesn't make much money

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-03 Thread Jerome Gagnon-Voyer
I haven't answer in months but still..i'm here and I love you all. Well...I have AdSense on my blog...and I think this is not enough money. We thing ads are a big deal but ... no. We won't get any money from that...not a lot tho. We can try butit's really not a lot of money. But st

Re: [Amsn-devel] an old discussion...

2006-10-02 Thread Youness Alaoui
Forgot to say.. admins only will be able to see how much money this generates, for two reasons : 1 - It's more fair if I wasn't the only one to access that info. 2 - I don't want the financial details to be given to everyone as this does not concern them and it will only generate problems... Bu