On 8/28/07, Donald Fischer <dff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/28/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The idea would be that we'd get a share of the revenue from ads that > > > you already see on a commercial web search results page like those > > > from google.com or search.yahoo.com. > > > > What are you going to do with that revenue? How much would it be? How > > transparent are those details? > > The idea of the sponsorship/affiliate element would be to enable > additional investment in Fedora. (Though I think there are other > reasons to move to the live start page beyond just sponsorship -- user > experience, communications channel, etc as pointed out in my initial > note). > > Potential revenue would depend on the size and behavior of Fedora's > audience, and the terms that could be negotiated with a commercial > search provider. Agree on the need for transparency. > > don For whatever worth, I support his idea :) Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
