Going forward, we need transparency [LWN.net]

Going forward, we need transparency

Posted Jul 26, 2002 17:21 UTC (Fri) by mceesay (guest, #2806)
Parent article: On the future of LWN

Subhir put it well in his comment on the "End of the Road" article:

"Somewhere on its home page, (or anywhere but clearly visible), there can be a target amount, total amount collected so far and time remaining."

Those of us who are dedicated supporters of LWN (I made a non-trivial donation yesterday), need to be able to see what is needed and how much is actually achieved.

Perhaps LWN could go as far as having an Open Books policy, I don't know.

Let's keep the dialogue going and perhaps collectively, we can develop a viable solution to LWN sustainability.

Regards,
Mamading Ceesay

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maybe more people and more efficiency = less costs

Posted Jul 26, 2002 18:10 UTC (Fri) by BogusUser ((unknown), #2818) [Link]

LWN staff:

Do you have some rough numbers how much of your time you spend on generating semantic content (= words making sense ;) and how much time you spend on:
- coding / markup with HTML, correcting HTML errors&typos
- handling broken links
- doing email support for people
- putting content from email into you web pages
- merging information from different contributors on the same topic
- internal staff communication (meetings, email)

Maybe the key could be making that all more efficient by using different technology (WikiWikiWeb) and by involving more helping hands.

Both would mean less load on your personal shoulders in the long run. As you did notice the last two days, you are not alone and there are people who care.

A completely different idea is offering real cheap banner advertisement, so that even small companies (even single or 2 person) could easily afford to advertise on LWN.

Thomas

maybe more people and more efficiency = less costs

Posted Jul 26, 2002 19:58 UTC (Fri) by dave (guest, #7) [Link]

Actually, we do offer inexpensive advertising. Those priceless friends of ours that appear on each pageview (look below the logo on the upper-left corner of the site) are sponsors of this site and get a fantastic value for the small up-front costs. We have large companies as well as the very smallest shops advertising at LWN. A full list of them is located under the "Advertise" link in the menu up top.

Dave