Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: donation page

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--- On Tue, 15/11/11, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com> wrote:

From: Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: donation page
To: "Florian Effenberger" <floeff@documentfoundation.org>, "drew" <drew@baseanswers.com>
Cc: marketing@global.libreoffice.org, "michael meeks" <michael.meeks@novell.com>
Date: Tuesday, 15 November, 2011, 17:33

Hi guys,

    Please CC me on replies, since I'm not subscribed to the list, and
can't follow all lists in linear time [ as you do so curse reply-to:
mangling please ;-].

    And:

> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:29:50 -0400
> From: drew <drew@baseanswers.com>
> Reply-to: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
> To: Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>
> Cc: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
...
> I suppose the thing to do now is just to finish the en page and to do
> that how about we look again at

    The donate page looks substantially better these days - which is
encouraging. I suggest we add the pretty piggy-bank logo on the download
page, at the bottom/right to point at this page too as/when we have
polished it up.

> but I suppose this is also a great moment to re-write that page a
> bit..it's seems a little sparse on actual copy that ASKS for a
> donation.

    Here would be my suggestions to compress it vertically and make it
somewhat richer:

> Back in a few hours with a draft then,

    Did the painting get the better of you - or should I be
subscribed ? :-)

    I think the current text is rather good.

    I'd sort the SPI link to the top though, and the flatr link below
paypal, and have some side-by-side divs with the huge Fries Office
address & bank details block on the right. Hopefully that'll get it into
a single page.

    I also think that something graphical would be really helpful here; a
single rotating image as on the front-page, with a caption of: "how we
spend your money" - with a selection of a pictures:

    Image / embedded caption:
    Munich Hack-Fest - hack fests to work on the code
    Paris / LibreOffice conf - conferences to co-ordinate and excite
    generic? server hardware - hardware to host infrastructure
    Italo at some conference - travel subsidy for speakers
    ODF plug-fest picture - standards work to enhance ODF

    Or somesuch ? if people agree, I can help put the images together and
make a mess of them to the point that someone clueful is provoked to do
it right ? :-)

    Wrt. the text, I'd move the "we prefer volunteers" rubric from the
bottom up, and say:

    "You are encouraged to send cash donations by one of these
     channels"

    or somesuch, with a bit more cosmetic text tweaking as we put it in
place. How does that sound ?

    HTH,

        Michael.

-- 
michael.meeks@suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot


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