discuss: Thread: Royalties

Greetings, 

ZDNet has set up an LDP mirror with ad banners that can be 
found here:

http://lhd.zdnet.com/LDP

We have also started featuring the most recently updated
HOWTOs within the Linux Resource Center (linux.zdnet.com). 
(Thanks to Greg Ferguson for maintaining the data file that
makes this easy to do).

Before we start to promote this mirror too much within ZDNet,
I'd like to get some kind of a royalty system set up. Ideally,
I see it working as follows. Once a quarter, we parse our 
server logs against a table of URLs/maintainer-emails/doc names 
(does such a thing exist?) This enables us to send out mail
messages that say something like the following:

Dear LDP maintainer,
Documents you maintain netted $XX.XX in royalties for the 
current quarter at ZDNet's LDP mirror. Please respond with 
your mailing address if you wish us to send you a check. If 
we do not hear from you in 30 days, a donation will be made 
in your name to the Linux Documentation Project.  
			--ZDNet Linux team

As I said, this is how I see it working in an ideal world. 
I'm pretty sure I can get approval to pay royalties (though 
they will probably be mere pennies per click) but I'm not 
sure I have the development resources to handle this myself. 
Since money is involved, it has to be a pretty rigorously
executed project.

The easier path would be to put a separate ad rotator on 
this mirror and just pay royalties to the LDP; however, as
a writer myself I'd prefer to reward the writers directly if
possible. 

Has anyone done anything similar? Is anyone interested in 
helping?  

Thanks for any ideas or responses.

-Henry

Henry Kingman
ZDNet GNU/Linux Producer
650 Townsend Street,
Fourth Floor,
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 551-4845


On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:26:51PM -0800, Henry Kingman wrote:
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