idea: ad serving for h/w vendors that provide documentation

Hi, 

Is there any support for openbsd.org serving banner ads for hardware vendors 
that provide good documentation and work with developers? 

This would give cooperative vendors a big thank you and generate income for 
the project.  (The "thank you" is the priviledge of appearing on www, they 
still must pay for impressions.) 

Who knows, it might convince more vendors to provide docs. 

Users would also benefit.  I see questions about best hardware on misc, and 
referrals to the (dead) vendorwatch site.  If www had one summary page that 
showed all the ads, grouped in some logical way, it would be an easy way for 
users to support vendors that have been open.  For example, to find that 10G 
ethernet vendor, I had to remember that the article was on undeadly.  And 
that the title was the driver name.  For good GigE adapters, I have to 
search list archives.  As a user who will be buying hardware in the near 
future, I would appreciate a central marketplace where I can find 
OpenBSD-friendly vendors. 

I would expect the project could get at least $5.00 USD for every ad that is 
viewed 1000 times--so you do the math, would this support an additional 
full-time developer?  Wouldn't that be nice ... 

I am _not_ proposing using Google or Yahoo ads, I am thinking about selling 
ad space to specific vendors, and serving it from a free software ad serving 
app), thereby maintaining 100% control over what appears on the site.  I 
think it could be done in a tasteful way that helps users and doesn't cast 
any shadows on the project.  Vendors help us (by providing docs), and we 
help them (by displaying their ads). 

Leaving implementation details aside, are there any philosophical 
objections? 

I am willing to make this happen if there is support. 

Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed. 

Thanks, 

m