Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-07 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it. What would people think of trying it out for a couple of months? We could start with Google ads to see how well ads work and once we have an idea of how much to expect, we could solicit ads

Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
Hi, I was reading that the GNOME foundation is in need of some more funding [1]. What about putting advertisements on the GNOME websites? According to this [2] www.gnome.org could have an annual revenue of 145K$. Maybe that is a bit to optimistic but even if it is only 10% of that amount it is

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:05 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it. What would people think of trying it out for a couple of months? We could start with Google ads to see

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/05/2009 05:15 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org mailto:beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:05 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it. What

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Stormy Peters
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: Back to lets advertise ourselves, ruler and stuff? :) I think we should do that in addition to considering paid ads! Stormy -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Putting ads on GNOME websites

2009-05-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 17:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 05/05/2009 05:05 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it. What would people think of trying it out for a couple of months? We could start with Google ads to see how well ads