9 Nov
2005
9 Nov
'05
3:13 p.m.
Really OT: Quite true.. But it's really sad to
manage a community portal
without any cash input to pay the efforts! Efforts are: time, code,
service
quality, bandwidth, webspace and so on...
I must say although that Ads in the last 2 years gives me nothing at all
(Google pays after 100$, and I gain no more than 40$!). And its hard
enough
to gain some donations to the cause (I had a donation of 30 EUR in 3 years
and a half)...
I suppose that service / contents of OpenJay.org is not good enough to
gain
donators attention. I'm working to improve it every day. But there is
nothing
bad to try to take back some money with ads... I think ;-P
What about?
OT (always, sorry): I second you on the fact that effort to give a
reliable and free community website is rarely rewarded :( . When I began
with oneshotsamples.com, people was able to register freely. Two years
later, the solely reward I had was a copyright infringment pursuit, that
hopefully ended well for me. Now people needs to be invited by members or
must donate a buck to get an invite from me :) Nevertheless ads are not
allowed at the Hyperreal.org hosting and I finally agree with this.
But sacrifice is a big component of the Free Software Ideology isn't it ?
Our developper friends can testify on this...
Regards.
Philippe
PS : I recall that I will be happy to give *free* invitation to LAU and
LAD users ;)