let me ask that guy what he would be advertising and how much it would cost. Of course the cash we may get from advertsising just go to hosting costs :-(
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Charley Baker <[email protected]>wrote: > Honestly, it would be nice to have a bit more money. I'm assuming the > current money has gone to hosting on watir.com? I can think of a few > things right off the bat that would be helpful - stickers, tshirts and > other promotional "stuff", slices and build machines so we can make > sure the tests are running in CI, I think watirbuild is dead, money to > sponsor some of the testing and open source confs. > > We're doing ok, but it would be nice to have some help to keep > things going well and make even bigger inroads. Selenium has had the > backing of google among others, Watir has been a grass roots project, > but could benefit from some infusion of cash and/or resources. In the > talks I've given on Watir, I've payed my own way, but that does come > with a cost. > > Charley Baker > Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Željko Filipin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since watir.com is hosted on wordpress.com, we can not put any ads there > (or > > maybe I got it wrong): > > > > http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/ > > > > We should move watir.com to a hosted solution if we wanted to serve ads. > > > > Moving is not a problem actually, I have a shared server with a few > > wordpress installs, and one more would not hurt. > > > > We had a discussion while back about advertisements and I guess the > > conclusion was that we do not need the money. :) We get some money from > > donations, and the costs for running the project are really low. > > > > Just out of curiosity, do you know what would be advertised, and how much > > money would we get? > > > > Željko > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wtr-development mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development >
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