[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Website EasyHack: Ask users to contribute while they are running their download

Le 2012-10-11 07:26, Florian Effenberger a écrit :

> I actually do have two views on that. ;-)
>
> One is the technical side:
> MirrorBrain redirects to an URL, and that is the one of the actual
> mirror hosting the file. So, if we were to introduce some intermediate
> side in between, we need to find a way that is not intrusive. Probably
> it won't be embedded in MirrorBrain, but somewhere on our download page.
> In other words: http://libreoffice.org/download/ could show such a page,
> but the direct link at http://download.documentfoundation.org won't.
>
> The other issue is something I recently brainstormed a bit with Alex.
> Sites liki Wikipedia can embed their donation request directly in the
> product people use, their website. Mozilla can do so as well, because
> their product can open their website at the very beginning.
>
> For LibreOffice, it is much more complicated. Our product itself, the
> one that millions of people around the world use, cannot show it per se.
> We need to find a way that is non intrusive, but still reaches lots of
> people - because that is the way we can reach millions of people: Our
> product.
>
> Probably a note at the end of the installer, a small donation button in
> the start center, something along those lines...
>
> Florian

Could we not instead have a button in the "Help" or on the "About" popup 
window? These could be links to our donations page where there would be 
more information on for what the funds are being raised or about any 
fundraising campaigns. I think we would have a better chance at 
convincing people if we present them with good arguments to contribute 
rather than just giving them a quick plea for a donation.

If the number of mouse-clicks that lead to a donations plea during the 
install process is the same as the number of mouse-clicks to get to a 
donations link in the "Help" menu, then I would favour this last one. 
The rationale being that the user would have installed/test-tried the 
suite and would be in a better mind-set to donate. I don't know about 
you, but, at install time, I do not usually donate until I try out the 
software I am downloading.

Cheers,

Marc

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