On 4/4/13 2:46 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:22:33 +0200 > Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in relation to our budget planning I asked myself if OpenOffice has any >> impact on the donations to the ASF? Well I don't know and we can >> probably figure this out but the question is what can we do ti collect >> more donations and use our brand more effective. >> >> When I look on our main website I found a tiny donation link in the >> footer only. From my point of view this is not good enough and we should >> think how we can improve it. >> >> I can think of a much more prominent and more visible donation link or >> whatever to make clear that OpenOffice will still benefit from donations >> to the ASF. We have more IT requirements than other ASF projects, we >> generate more network traffic, etc. and all this cost money. >> >> Furthermore I can think of a blog post to promote this in some way and >> do a public call for donation. We should of course do this more often >> with any public announcement. >> >> And opinions or further ideas how we can improve this? It shouldn't be a >> big problem for us to collect the money we need. >> >> Juergen >> > > While I understand and agree with a call for donations, do I remember that a > very early discussion on this list mentioned that donations to Apache could > not be project specific, or am I misremembering and that the mentioned > restriction was only flaw specific? That is, that one could donate, but could > not specify that the donation was to be applied to fix flaw X. >
yes that is true but we can explain how AOO benefit from this donations to ASF. I don't see this really as a big problem. But of course we have to make this very clear. Juergen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
