On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:47:00AM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
Jaap-
It seems that paying for the hardware and bandwidth can be done by the authors, but I don't think it should. The readers should pay for it, either directly or by having to lookat/ignore advertisements.
Fundraising is perfectly fine. People will just have to get used to it. We'll do it once a year and cover our operating costs that way. Sure, Google text-ads aren't too bad, but if we can easily do without them, why bother?
One could test the ads on a inofficial mirror, every money that's not need to operate the mirror could be given to Wikimedia. That would be a good and semi-official method.
ciao, tom