Start an ad network

[chadwhitacre]

Idea came up in a call with a popular dev portal. Basically:

• Make an API to serve random Members.
• Ad companies consume API to promote OS Pledge and Members.

Bonus:

• If/when we implement Add non-cash contributions to reporting schema #12, ad companies can report ad inventory as gift-in-kind contribution.

[chadwhitacre]

I talked to @stevekrouse about hosting this on Val Town, seems like it could be a good fit. :)

[stevekrouse]

Definitely!

[voxpelli]

Sounds like a good fit for https://www.ethicalads.io/ – some kind of partnering with them would be great as they were created to help the sustainability of OSS

Their background:

EthicalAds was built to sustain development of Read the Docs, an open source documentation platform. Advertising was the natural model because it scaled up well as our platform grew. However, we wanted to do ads right without tracking users or having security issues with third-party scripts.

Since no existing ad networks would partner with us on privacy-respecting ads, we built our own.

Their client script is MIT-licensed: https://github.com/readthedocs/ethical-ad-client

Their server is AGPL-licensed: https://github.com/readthedocs/ethical-ad-server

[chadwhitacre]

Ah, good call, @voxpelli! Waddya think @ericholscher? Worth a conversation? 😌

Ask is to donate some ad inventory to osspledge.com. 🙏