On Friday 14 January 2005 04:14, Jim Wilson wrote:
Sort of a little off topic: Something that would be really cool (at least
in the US) is to have a registered non-profit that just collected
donations (like United Way) and then uses those funds to make grants to
individual projects like
Dumb question: do we want to investigate the possibility of adding
google adds to the FlightGear site? Is this out of bounds, or within
bounds for an open-source project. It's a potential revenue generator,
but it's unclear if it will generate $0.39 per month or $39.00 per month
or $390.00
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Dumb question: do we want to investigate the possibility of adding
google adds to the FlightGear site?
FWIW, it's fine with me. If the worst thing FlightGear does in this
world is make Curt rich, I suspect I'll still be able to sleep at
night. :)
Seriously, having some
Curtis L. Olson said:
Dumb question: do we want to investigate the possibility of adding
google adds to the FlightGear site? Is this out of bounds, or within
bounds for an open-source project. It's a potential revenue generator,
but it's unclear if it will generate $0.39 per month or
One thing that you might want to consider is that the clickthough rate
is really low. And is it really worth it.
I've been using AdSense for awhile now and the clickthough rate, at
least for me is very low on average. An average of 0.5%. That's with
about 4000 impressions.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005
Jim Wilson wrote:
It probably is, because high ethical standards are fundamental to the
open-source concept. A few general ethical issues along those lines:
- more commercial appearance to site.
- ads are not particularly effective for advertisers (compared to adwords on
the google search engine
Having experience of google adwords myself, I'd just like to make an
observation:
If you have a well designed website (such as flightgear.org) where all
information is clearly laid out and you didn't employ any 'tricks' to make
someone arrive at your site.
...chances are the 'visitor' has
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:39:07 -0600
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Is this worth looking into, or would it be crossing some sort of
open-source ethical line?
I don't think it's crossing an ethical line. That doesn't mean
we wanna do it, though; just that I don't think *that's* the
reason not to.
I
On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 22:33, Chris Metzler wrote:
One question I have is how binding the agreement would be. Suppose
after a couple of weeks of GoogleAds, everyone says this sucks and
wants to get rid of them. Could we? Or would we be stuck with having
them on the website for 3 months/6
Dave Martin wrote:
Having experience of google adwords myself, I'd just like to make an
observation:
If you have a well designed website (such as flightgear.org) where all
information is clearly laid out and you didn't employ any 'tricks' to make
someone arrive at your site.
...chances
Dave Martin wrote:
There is no binding agreement to continue to run the ads for any
pre-determined time.
There is a binding agreement not to discuss the adwords system / payments
(whoops) and all adwords accounts are subject to acceptance based on the
content of the site.
Yes, we could bail
On Friday 14 January 2005 00:14, Dave Martin wrote:
On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 22:45, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Here is a screen shot of about as unobstrusive of an add as I can
configure:
http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/tmp/fgfs-ads.jpg
I'd avoid giving them 1st place on a side bar
On Thursday 13 January 2005 23:45, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Here is a screen shot of about as unobstrusive of an add as I can
configure:
http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/tmp/fgfs-ads.jpg
I don't like the place where this advertisement is set.
The size is ok, but it should not be at the
Curtis L. Olson said:
I don't want to get caught up parsing nuances here. Commercial vs.
non-commercial is a continuum, but I'm not sure there is any ethics
attached to that.
To some, nuances matter and to some commerial vs. non-commercial is in fact an
ethic issue. Especially when it
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:14:50 -
Jim Wilson wrote:
Sort of a little off topic: Something that would be really cool (at
least in the US) is to have a registered non-profit that just collected
donations (like United Way) and then uses those funds to make grants to
individual projects like
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Ok, I'm done playing around with this for the day and have removed the
test adds from our page. The adds we get from google aren't all that
exciting or relevent ... it's not like the subject of our site is
something interesting like farm tractors. If anyone else has
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