Ads support with Open X

[Manolinux aka Mu]

I think that at some time we will need to include ads support, and
that for this it could be ideal the open-source advertising server
OpenX.

I've written more details in my wiki user page, since I think this
will need a lot of literature:
`http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/User:Manolinux#Openx\_support <http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/User:Manolinux#Openx_support>`_

Tell me your opinion here or by IRC.

[maiki interi]

    Architecture


    For sure this must be a plugin. Any work done must be very modular
    and enough flexible to be adapted to the upcoming plugin
    infraestructure, whichever form it takes.
    I don't know gmg enough to say, but maybe page areas must be
    defined. Anyway, page areas will have to exist when a plugin
    infaestructure arrives.


I've been considering this myself, since getting into the template
system. I think we should probably take a hint from other projects,
where there are default zones that plugins may safely presume
exist. I don't know how that would work with ads, but if we define
areas in the template like *header*, *branding*, *sidebar n*,
*footer*, etc., then plugins can create output with that in mind,
and then allow for people to create template overrides if they need
something more than that.

For what it's worth, I am personally not thrilled about an ad
plugin, but this is a common issue that we are going to need for a
lot of plugins (analytics codes, arbitrary widgets, etc.).

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/700 .

[Christopher Allan Webber]

I think Maiki is right, we should leave some space in the templates to easily allow for ads.

I know, some people are not thrilled about ads, but people are going to deploy instances where they want to run ads, and that should be okay. I think the sane way to handle this is to a) just have a nice space in the templates that can be *generally* extended, and b) integrate this with the upcoming plugin system.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Pulled off the milestone list. We should do this, but as a plugin. Will and I have been discussing and a plugin architecture should kick off soon.