<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I myself don't see an upside with allowing random ads to be associated with Sugar Labs, for the tiny amount of income we might receive. If indeed our US nonprofit status through SFC would allow gains from advertising. Far better to do Calls to Action ("CTA" in their jargon) and Annotations, requesting donations.<br><br></div>I support Samuel's suggestion to regroup our social media accounts and publish a posting policy modelled on Cloudstack's.<br><br></div>Leaving aside our small content stream, a fundraising drive needs a compelling story about our vision and goals. I'm not sure what that story should be.<br><br></div>Sean<br><br><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Sam Parkinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com" target="_blank">sam.parkinson3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Samson,<div><br></div><div>Last time I checked, Wikipedia was proudly add free (and asking for donations to stay that way).</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think we should put ads on our wiki. I believe that we have the hosting of the wiki funded/donated. And the adds can look very trashy and unprofessional - no other serious projects have them.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we can get away with youtube ads, given that people might blame it on youtube. But is it worth doing it? Isn't the revenue around $0.40/1000 views? Do we even have 1000 views? Is that worth the effect hosting ads has on our image?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sam<div><div class="h5"><br><br>On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:39 PM, samson goddy <<a href="mailto:samsongoddy@hotmail.com" target="_blank">samsongoddy@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Apart from the youtube adsense google also use ads, but just like android is one bad idea. We can embed ads in our texts in our wiki page. Just the same way wikipedia does. There is also text ads. Seems like google give about 0.30 usd per ads. <br><br><hr>From: <a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a><br>Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 17:09:47 -0600<br>To: <a href="mailto:samuel@greenfeld.org" target="_blank">samuel@greenfeld.org</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:samsongoddy@hotmail.com" target="_blank">samsongoddy@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com" target="_blank">sam.parkinson3@gmail.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Smart way to get $$ for posting videos on youtube<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div>On 1 June 2016 at 17:07, Samuel Greenfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel@greenfeld.org" target="_blank">samuel@greenfeld.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I would have to ask to see what they are using.</blockquote></div><br>Please do! :) </div></div> <br>_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div> </blockquote></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div>