I suppose it's about time I properly introduce myself on the mailing list. My name is Jeff Craig, and I have been an avid Linux user almost ten years, and a user of GNOME for most of that. While I've always been interested in Open Source development, I've only just recently made the strong commitment to actually do it, and have begun that work with Rhythmbox, having submitted a few patches.
Anyway, with the announcement of the Amazon DRM Free Music Store, I saw an opportunity to have a plugin that allows Rhythmbox users to get mainstream music that is DRM free, and we should be able to plug it in, similarly to the Magnatune plugin. I've done a bit of reading about Amazon's Web Services, and filed a bug requesting this feature: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480633 I've been doing some thinking about how to go about working on this, and it appears the E-Commerce service will do most of what we will need, provided it interfaces with the Beta music store, of course. One part of this service that I noticed that seemed potentially interesting was the integration with the Amazon Associates program, which allows Affiliates to earn up to 10% of customer purchases. This raised an interesting question to myself, that I wanted to bring to the list. While we can use the E-Commerce Service without the Affiliate Program, would it be worthwhile trying to set up the GNOME Foundation (the best recipient, in my opinion) as an Affiliate, and have referral fees from this plugin go to the Foundation? Or would the potential for abuse that this could introduce be more than we want to worry about? I wanted opinions on this from Rhythmbox developers before I brought the idea to the Foundation lists, since if the maintainers of Rhythmbox don't want this aspect of the feature, it isn't worth bringing up. So, I guess the question of the day is: Would it be okay to create a plugin that, through it's use, could help support the GNOME Foundation without costing the user anything? Jeff Craig _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
