Ask HN: Why don't open source projects show ads on their readme pages?

Re:Ask HN: Why don't open source projects show ads on their ... by andrzejkrzywda on Sunday October 23, 2016 @06:01AM (#12772805)

It's not a classical open-source project, but what we did with our React.JS koans (and other our OSS repos) was to advertise our React.js book in the README and give a discount code. Essentially, it's an ad for our own book.

https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans

Thanks to this solution we've had more money to work on this and other OSS projects.

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't open source projects show ads on their ... by Gammarays on Sunday October 23, 2016 @06:14AM (#12772847)

Looks like a great resource with a number of collaborators. What was the process of getting all the collaborators to agree to advertise the book?

Have you ever been approached to sponsor another product/company? Under what terms would you accept?

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't open source projects show ads on their ... by andrzejkrzywda on Sunday October 23, 2016 @07:07AM (#12772997)

The book ad was there almost from the beginning, so we've assumed that the contributors are aware of the way this repo is funded.

As for sponsoring other products/companies - we'd need to see if it's aligned with our goals and with our target group. I don't remember anyone approaching us so far.

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