Hi, We must find a way to share the money, something everyone will agree upon, and something more specific than "who contributes the most". Otherwise, we might end up arguing about "who deserves more money", which will eventually decrease productivity.
Personally, I don't care. I was about to add a "don't care" section when I saw the email, then I saw Jerome added it, then again... if I don't answer at all, it will count as a "don't care", won't it? (In fact, I did sent the reply, but I accidentally used my gmail account and now it's deferred 451 :( ) Vivia On 10/3/06, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm going to reopen an old discussion we already had many times... > I subscribed aMSN to the adSense program (http://google.com/adsense) > This will have us add google ads inside of amsn's website, I think it's not > agressive, I've seen it a lot, and > I don't find it agressive like other ad banners... > I hope everyone agrees with this. > These ads will generate funds, and I hope we'll be able to use that to buy a > domain and webspace with > godaddy.com (2000GB transfer per month, 200GB space... ).. this will allow us > to at least have a decent speed > for the forums... > Also, I'm hoping that if we can get enough money, we'll set up bounties.. > which means, for each bug (or commit) > a certain amount of money will be given as a 'reward'.. and I sincerely hope > that this will motivate people to > work a little bit more on aMSN... > Finally, the only issue with this is that google doesn't work with paypal, > their only way of pay is by sending > checks monthly to an address with the check labeled to an individual's name. > I gave mine. This, of course, > brings up the question of "do you trust me?".. I hope everyone trusts me to > manage that money... > Also, if we really get enough money, I'd like to give a small salary to > everyone participating, rewards from > time to time, etc.. for example, I'm managing the team (less and less), but > if I spend hours on aMSN everyday > talking about the issues, assigning tasks and answering emails, reviewing svn > commit logs, etc... but I don't > do any commit... does it mean I don't have the right to receive a small > amount of money ? This applies to > anyone else.. like Nowhereman, or snipe for example, they help in the forums, > they work on the userwiki (not > really:P WHERE ARE YOU!!! :p) but they can't commit anything... so maybe > they'll also need a little > encouragement.. > of course, all this, is only 'if we get enough money'... if we get 7$ a > month, and the hosting costs us 6.29$ > then we can't expect to give much rewards... > > Final thing.. IF this whole subject brings ANY trouble... people start > yelling, complaining, or anything, this > whole thing will be shut down entirely to avoid any additional problems. We > all know that with money comes > problems, well, I hope we're all mature enough not to be greedy, but if we > are, then everyone will loose... > > I'll post a poll, just to make sure everyone agrees... once the majority is > giving his ok on the subject (I DO > NOT WANT ANY FLAME WAR TO START), then we'll add the ads to the website... if > most people don't want this to > happen, then we'll drop the idea. > > *Add Google AdSense > - Youness > - Alvaro > > *Stay with SF and no ads > > > > > Hope to hear from you! > KaKaRoTo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > -- "Where is the life that we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge that we have lost in information?" OEO; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
