Hi Paul,
Thanks Matthias for linking the original discussion. Paul, while I agree with you that an ad-free experience has its merits, there is also value in supporting the sustainability of ReadTheDocs, one of the most used open source services. While we can certainly revisit the decision to have the small ad on the sidebar, the team, back in March, felt that the benefit of supporting the sustainability of RTD was important and outweighed the distraction of a small ad. I've personally been a Gold contributor to ReadTheDocs for a long time since I believe their service makes documentation more accessible and helpful. There are some good Talk Python to Me podcasts that discuss the RTD and open source sustainability. I would be happy to chat more about sustainability when I see you next week. I don't have strong objections about removing the ads as long as ReadTheDocs receives similar financial income from Jupyter to sustain the RTD project. Here are some additional links re: sustainability and Jupyter popularity on RTD: * https://readthedocs.org/sustainability/ A fundraising campaign and its results * https://blog.readthedocs.com/read-the-docs-2015-stats/ Stats from 2015 usage of RTD * https://www.seethestats.com/site/readthedocs.org Stats from the last 30 days on RTD usage. Interestingly, Jupyter documentation is among the most visited documentation. Warmly, Carol **Carol Willing** Research Software Engineer, Project Jupyter Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Director, Python Software Foundation Strengths: Empathy, Relator, Ideation, Strategic, Learner Sent from [Nylas N1](https://link.nylas.com/link/68p140bimyedpd78wkdi7pwew /local-d11df4aa-ce37/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fnylas.com%2Fn1%3Fref%3Dn1&r=anVw eXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t), the extensible, open source mail client.  On Dec 8 2016, at 6:22 pm, Paul Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been away for a while, but now that I'm back, I wanted to chime in that I was jolted by viewing our docs on a site that inserts advertisements, it cheapens the experience and somehow undermines their authority for me. > > According to this blog entry, this started happening in March of this year: [https://blog.readthedocs.com/ads-on-read-the- docs/](https://blog.readthedocs.com/ads-on-read-the- docs/&r=anVweXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t) > > There is an opting out policy listed on there, and I just wanted to bring this up as something we should do, and gauge how other people feel about it. > > I'm not sure who's in charge of our readthedocs integration, but while we have some grant money, could we figure out how much a gold subscription would be? > > best, > > \-- > > _ > > / \ > > A* \^ - > > ,./ _.`\\\ / \ > > / ,--.S \/ \ > > / `"~,_ \ \ > > __o ? > > _ \<,_ /:\ > > \--(_)/-(_)----.../ | \ > > \--------------.......J > > Paul Ivanov [http://pirsquared.org](http://pirsquared.org&r=anVweXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY2 9t) | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7 > > \-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [[email protected]](mailto:jupyter+unsubscribe@goo glegroups.com). To post to this group, send email to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ju pyter/CAKCGbV7d0JGMfqnLqXyvruhREFMQRuhbGVQvcjhgcMY958AKjw%40mail.gmail.com](ht tps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAKCGbV7d0JGMfqnLqXyvruhREFMQRuhbGVQvc jhgcMY958AKjw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer&r=anVweXRlck Bnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.go ogle.com/d/optout&r=anVweXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/5oqe061kp7vdikc4dyw4o1m43-2147483647%40mailer.nylas.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
