Some revenue earning ideas.

Some revenue earning ideas.

How about these ideas?

1. Put Google adverts in the unused area to the left. Make this a configuration option if you are a financial member.
2. For a fee, by debitting their account, members should be able to d/l an article as a nicely formatted PDF file, or have it emailed to them, or anybody else, as an attachment. Non-members sould be able to do the same, but for a higher fee.
3. Collate the major articles, such as the "Grumpy Editor's" series, every month and produce an e-magazine in both screen and print formats distributed as pdf files. This could carry some adverts and earn extra subscription revenue. I'd subcribe to this in a trice because much of the LWN content is head and shoulders above many print magazines which cost approximately $100 or more per year.
4. Request firmly that you be given quid pro quo links back to LWN from the e-journals to which you link. Similarly the home pages of the Linux distributions to which you link in the Distributions listing linked in the top RH corner of the LWN header.
5. Set up a "share float" starting with the existing subscribers to finance the exercise.
6. Spend some money advertising in Linux oriented print journals.