What's the Oolite website worth?

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:15 am

I was browsing across the web when I found a site called yourwebsitevalue.com. It evaluates the potential income a website can make based on its traffic...

Oolite.org could potentially make $4,600 a year. I don't know exactly how, but it's pretty cool!

Aegidian.org could make $4,207...

Not that we would do something like that...

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:31 am

On the subject of costs and statistics, Ohloh, an open source projects monitoring and statistics site, has a cost calculator which estimates how much it would cost to hire a team to write a project from scratch and reports the following for Oolite, based on developer team size, codebase etc.:

Effort (est.) 71 Person Years
Avg. Salary $55,000 year
Project cost: $ 3,889,702

Of course this is all wild approximation and purely hypothetical, but I thought it was quite interesting as an indicator of the size of the project. Full details for anyone interested here: http://www.ohloh.net/p/oolite

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:34 am

Generally speaking I'm against using advertising here. But my feelings are slightly blunted by having just paid £60 for this year's hosting of the BB.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:03 am

aegidian wrote:
Generally speaking I'm against using advertising here. But my feelings are slightly blunted by having just paid £60 for this year's hosting of the BB.

You could put a little paypal button somewhere - I'd chuck a few quid into the pot to keep the site going...

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:08 am

Hehehe.. great minds, and all that.. I just PM'd aegidian with almost the exact same wording..

Corny · Post by **Corny** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:17 am

DaddyHoggy wrote:
aegidian wrote:
Generally speaking I'm against using advertising here. But my feelings are slightly blunted by having just paid £60 for this year's hosting of the BB.
You could put a little paypal button somewhere - I'd chuck a few quid into the pot to keep the site going...

Maybe even with a little (!) progress pie-chart how much of the year's hosting costs are covered?

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:33 am

I could toss in nice American dollars.

Post by **Disembodied** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:51 pm

Corny wrote:
Maybe even with a little (!) progress pie-chart how much of the year's hosting costs are covered?

In the UK it's traditional to use a big cardboard thermometer ...

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:07 pm

I'd happily pitch in. If this could lead us down to some of the upgrades and integration that's been mentioned previously, it'd be worth every dollar.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:18 pm

aegidian wrote:
Generally speaking I'm against using advertising here. But my feelings are slightly blunted by having just paid £60 for this year's hosting of the BB.

Oops! I’d completely forgotten. The old Oolite~~.org~~ site had a donate button. When I set up oolite.org I was planning to take over forum hosting, but my attempts to port the database failed messily.

Even dumber, I forgot to link to the official Oolite swag shop. :-( The lesson: if I’m supposed to be getting things done, I need the occasional kicking. Don’t be afraid to be the one swinging the boot.

(For reference, my total Oolite-related costs are 89 kr/year for the domain, or £ 8.30. Hosting is a mix of free BerliOS and excess capacity on a hosting account.)

Advertising is an issue because it implies “commercial venture”, a concept we don’t want anywhere near Oolite. Resurrecting the donate button would be less problematic. In addition to Oolite.org, BerliOS has an option to integrate a PayPal donation link in project pages. Anyway, if you (Giles) want me to set this up, e-mail me.

Everyone else: the donation button on the archived old site probably still works.

another_commander wrote:
Project cost: $ 3,889,702

Don’t forget that this includes SpiderMonkey.

Commander Trigg · Post by **Commander Trigg** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:08 pm

That Thargoid fridge magnet http://www.cafepress.co.uk/Oolite.12576431# looks good!

I may have to order a couple by way of a donation when I get home next week...

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:39 pm

Many thanks for everyone's help.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:31 pm

Ahruman wrote:
Everyone else: the donation button on the archived old site probably still works.

Probably I am just dumb (or blind), but I don't see the donation button?!?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:37 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
Probably I am just dumb (or blind), but I don't see the donation button?!?

Left hand side, below navigation.

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:14 pm

There's a problem with that page. It only scrolls the main body, NOT the menu. And if the menu is larger than your resolution (as in my case) - you don't see the donate button.