Live Fedora start page proposal

[Thomas Chung]

On 8/28/07, Donald Fischer <dff at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> 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,
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Thomas Chung
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