[Consortium] Funding option

[Patrick Shirkey]

Hi,

We don't need any bank account to get it started. Someone has to sign up 
for a new account with the adwords system under the name of the 
consortium. Then once it is accepted we just add the relevant code to 
the various pages/sites in the LAO posse.

It takes about 10 minutes to sign up and a couple of days to be processed.

Cheers.

Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> I know this has been a while, but this does seem like a reasonable idea.
> What do we need to get this going? A paypal account? What else?
> 
> Ico
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: consortium-bounces at lists.linuxaudio.org [mailto:consortium-
>> bounces at lists.linuxaudio.org] On Behalf Of Dave Phillips
>> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:45 AM
>> To: consortium at lists.linuxaudio.org
>> Subject: Re: [Consortium] Funding option
>>
>> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> One possible way of generating a small revenue stream which could be
>>> used to support the consortium financially is to have google/yahoo ads
>>> on the LAO websites.
>>>
>>> Currently none of the websites hosted have them and it is obviously
>>> not everyones first choice.
>>>
>>> A few reasons I can think of for adding advertising to the site are:
>>>
>>> - Constant stream of income
>>> - The sites get heavy traffic so we would get high click through rates
>>> and percentages
>>> - It *could* make us look more professional to non-Libre initiated users
>>> - If the sites make good money then it will be channeled back into the
>>> consortium and associated projects
>>> - Google has been supportive of LAD and open source through "Summer of
>>> Code"
>>> - We all use Google anyway so lets cash in like everyone else
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyhow it is definitely a consortium decision as it will no doubt be
>>> viewed negatively by a substantial number of LAD/LAU'ers.
>> No objection here. I've recently considered adding Google ads on the
>> soundapps site, though my inertia will probably kibosh that plan. :)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> dp
>>
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