[libreoffice-website] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Increasing Donations

Hi Marc,

Marc Paré wrote on 2013-04-09 23:31:

> As far as script goes, I have not comment, I can play hockey better than
> code ... you haven't seen me play hockey, but when you do, you will know
> that I am no coder!

Canadian? Hockey? That rings a bell for me ;-)

> As far as the plea for donation ... I always prefer also seeing a
> statement along the line of "Any amount, of any size, will be put to
> great use and is very appreciated. We thank you for your continued
> support."
>
> Anyway, the important part is that we stress that any amount will help
> and we should always be benevolent, and thank people ... ahem ... in
> advance. These two items are a reflection of some of the ideals of our
> community.

IMHO, that's both included in the donate page. Maybe it's a bit long to 
be seen at first glance, but it's not so much about the page, rather 
about the idea behind my little script. We can show any page we want, 
just the download process would be similar: First the donate page is 
opened, and then the download starts.

> IMO, as a community member, it would be neat if we could decide to tie
> downloading to joining our community by default. That is to say that one
> of the "conditions" of downloading "our community project" is that the
> person downloading LibreOffice has "agreed" that they have tacitly
> joined the LibreOffice community. Then we could have a "Welcome to the
> LibreOffice community" message at the download point and then offer the
> downloader a page with our community definition as well as a plea for
> financial and contributing support. We would not enforce it, but it
> would still be neat to view our project as more of a community project
> where we have by default or by result a software programme that we
> develop and use as a group. This would then open our community to take
> on more than one piece of software if we wanted, and to claim that a
> consensual use of the software by the community.

I think it depends on the exact wording, otherwise people might feel 
obliged. ;-) Mentioning that "you can contribute by becoming a community 
member, or by donating" makes sense, of course.

Florian

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