[Adium-devl] Monetizing Adium

[Andre-John Mas]

I wonder whether having a donation dialog popping-up on first install
would be of interest. The text would be along the lines of:

   "Thank you for installing Adium. If you enjoy Adium please
    consider making a donation. To find out how a donation helps
    Adium follow this link"

Andre

On 3-Aug-07, at 08:40 , Chris Forsythe wrote:

> Folks,
>
> 	Sorry for the flood of emails this week.
>
> 	So for a while now I've wanted us to be able to provide for full  
> time development of Adium. SoC has proven that this is a good thing  
> to do, take Andreas' project last year and this year for instance.  
> The problem is that we need to be able to bring in a revenue stream  
> large enough to be competitive in the work place, and to not void  
> everything we've worked on with something like advertising inside  
> of Adium.
>
> 	We've tried multiple routes to help us increase revenue in some  
> ways. Donations are not enough. Revver videos actually do help us a  
> little (the ad at the end generates revenue, which gets put into  
> the donations account), but not a lot. We've tried getting VOIP  
> software added to Adium so that we'd gain revenue for computer ->  
> landline dialing, but that's proven to be difficult (not impossible).
>
> 	The general idea going forward is incremental increases in revenue  
> streams. Specifically if we have a lot of micropayment setups such  
> as Revver which allow us to make enough to employ at least one  
> person, that'd be pretty darned cool.
>
> 	With all that said, we still need to become a legal entity. Augie  
> has a coworker who was working towards that goal with us, but that  
> conversation died off. I was thinking of setting up a Texas LLC  
> since those are easy to setup, making myself and Evan "co-owners"  
> so to speak. That'd just be so that we'd have legal status within  
> the US, and so that the income wouldn't be taxed directly to Evan  
> or myself as it is right now.
>
> 	There are other options, such as a 501c3, but upon advisement of  
> Robert Levin before he died, I'm pretty wary of all the  
> requirements of that (wouldn't mind someone else doing it, such as  
> Augie's coworker who knows the system).
>
> 	So anyhow, point of the email. Can anyone think of revenue  
> streams? We all know about the tshirt store and selling Adium  
> plushies and things like that, but do you have any oddball,  
> hairbrained ideas which we could utilize so that we can start  
> paying people to work on Adium full time or part time? Ads within  
> Adium will not be happening, just to clear that up right now. Neat  
> ideas such as Revver would be great though.
>
> Chris
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