Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

Hi Florian, Drew, all!

Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2011, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger:
> Hi Drew,
>
> drew wrote on 2011-09-25 08:46:
>
> > I've taken the liberty of changing the LibreOffice home page,
> > specifically the URL used for the right hand banner link to:
> >
> > http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/
> >
> > as a short term (maybe longer?) fix.
>
> thanks a lot for the initiative - the donations topic really is 
> something we need to work on, but I personally miss time. :/

Same on my side ... but just the small comment that "contribution" (in
terms of donating) might be misleading within a FLOSS project.

> A while ago, Bernhard or Christoph (I think the latter one, but I don't 
> recall exactly) asked me to set up donate.documentfoundation.org to be 
> used as future donations page. It exists, but points to the challenge 
> site at the moment.

Yep, we discussed that ... the idea was to simply replace the "outdated"
challenge-site link.

> So, the question is, whether we want to have a subdomain or a path name. 
> I think indeed it might be easier to have www.tdf/donate as global 
> donations page, and lang-code.libreoffice.org/local-donate-translation 
> (like de.libreoffice.org/spenden or fr.libreoffice.org/donner) as local 
> donations addresses.

That's up to you - you know the infrastructure much better. I think the
"main thing" at the moment is to get a better page that clearly explains
the situation today.

Anybody here, who might be able to help?

Cheers,
Christoph


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