What's the Oolite website worth?
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What's the Oolite website worth?
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...
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...
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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
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
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You could put a little paypal button somewhere - I'd chuck a few quid into the pot to keep the site going...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.
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Hehehe.. great minds, and all that.. I just PM'd aegidian with almost the exact same wording..
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
Maybe even with a little (!) progress pie-chart how much of the year's hosting costs are covered?DaddyHoggy wrote:You could put a little paypal button somewhere - I'd chuck a few quid into the pot to keep the site going...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.
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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.
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Oops! I’d completely forgotten. The old Ooliteaegidian 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.
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.
Don’t forget that this includes SpiderMonkey.another_commander wrote:Project cost: $ 3,889,702
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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...
I may have to order a couple by way of a donation when I get home next week...
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Probably I am just dumb (or blind), but I don't see the donation button?!?Ahruman wrote:Everyone else: the donation button on the archived old site probably still works.
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Left hand side, below navigation.Commander McLane wrote:Probably I am just dumb (or blind), but I don't see the donation button?!?
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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.
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