Librecho description
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What is Librecho
Librecho is a community website dedicated to promoting Free Software thanks to a classic advertisement banners but based on a community, ethic and gratis model.
Motivation
As the author of the GCompris Free Software (http://gcompris.net), I maintain the project website. It has a lot of visitors, which are not necessarily people aware of free software. It would be unfortunate not to benefit from their visit to make them discover other Free projects, in the software or cultural fields, or relay protests, petitions or other actions to support Free Software.
Demonstration
Better than a long talk, a demonstration page (http://librecho.net/test.html) with a librecho recommendation or on GCompris (http://gcompris.net) website.
Librecho operation
Selection criterion
- Promotion can be about:
- A Free Software (licensed under GPL or any free license as considered by the FSF)
- A Free Software related event: meeting, forum, ...
- Relaying of a support action for Free Software.
- Promotion can't be about:
- A company (commercial entity selling goods or services)
- A non free software or technology
Advertiser prices
This service is free (gratis). The coordination group of this website can create by itself adverts for projects considered interesting to be promoted. It's possible to anybody to propose a promotion, but the coordination group can refuse it without further justification.
Participating website remuneration
No remuneration is planned.
Contribute to this project
This project requires no particular computer related skills, except a good knowledge of the free software world. The major task is to maintain our promotion base up to date and to add new ones. For this, a simple web browser is enough, the administration interface of phpadsnew is simple enough. If you want to contribute, send an email to bruno.coudoin@free.fr
Technical solution
To create and administrate the banners, we use the tool phpAdsNew (http://phpadsnew.com). Its principle is to create banners thanks to the administration (http://librecho.net/admin) page of this website. Then we encourage website to use those banners by adding a piece of code in their pages.
Promotions format
Currently text format is used.
Promotions language
Currently, only english and french are available.
Anti-ad filters
Be careful, anti-ad filters like the 'Adblock Filterset.G Updater' Firefox extension block the promotions from Librecho.
I want them on my website
It's really easy, you just need to put the following code in your page:
<a href="http://librecho.net">Librecho</a> proposes:
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='http://librecho.net/admin/adx.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
if (!document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used = ',';
phpAds_random = new String (Math.random()); phpAds_random = phpAds_random.substring(2,11);
document.write ("<" + "script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='");
document.write ("http://librecho.net/admin/adjs.php?n=" + phpAds_random);
document.write ("&exclude=" + document.phpAds_used);
if (document.referrer)
document.write ("&referer=" + escape(document.referrer));
document.write ("'><" + "/script>");
//-->
</script>
<noscript><a href='http://librecho.net/admin/adclick.php?n=a5b37c36' target='_blank'>
<img src='http://librecho.net/admin/adview.php?n=a5b37c36' border='0' alt=''></a>
</noscript>
