Comments on: Advertising Free Software Projects

By: MJR/blog:slef-reflection, re-reflected

MJR/blog:slef-reflection, re-reflected — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:17:18 +0000

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By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:14:08 +0000

The worse problem probably depends on whether the judge can pass the eye-tests reliably :-P

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:43:07 +0000

No OpenID because I’ve not yet coded it. The Perl OpenID modules are a pain to work with and I’ve not managed to find time to revisit the idea yet.

Hopefully it will happen sometime this year, but not in the immediate future.

Eye-test is a pain, but spam is a worse problem.

By: MJ Ray:

MJ Ray: — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:59:31 +0000

(Pingback service appears broken: adding manually) “That’s one reason why I’m glad to see the suggestion of etbe: Advertising Free Software Projects – nearly every free software project would be better off improving their web sites and building more sustainable traffic, instead of wasting resources competing in the Google-ad Games.”

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:36:15 +0000

Debian Administration website requires me to pass an eyetest for registration. Why not OpenID?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:11:31 +0000

If you’ve got a Debian-related project and you’re a member of the Debian Administration website you can submit adverts which will be shown instead of google adsense links to our visitors.

I envisioned this as a simple way for the community to advertise the projects they were involved with; unfortunately I seem to get few advert submissoins, even though there is a wide readership and no cost!

http://www.debian-administration.org/create/advert