I agree with Andreas. It's true that we should want many people to put a badge on their side, since it's a prerequisite to find more donors.
But to fix this, a prominent place for the link to the badges page will not be sufficient. Just a small fraction of GNOME users will visit the friends page, and of these, only a small fraction will have a blog or webpage. Therefore, we will need to "advertise" the badges page by other means, anyway. When the badges page will be ready, we could use - the GNOME Announce mailing list, - a planet.gnome blog (Stormy's, maybe?) - the GNOME frontpage - gnomesupport.org to announce the badges program. It will probably also be useful to send reminders via panet.gnome.org every 6 weeks or so, since our main problem might not be a lack of willingness to help, but procrastination. Thus, I suggest to just put another headline under "Cooperate sponsorship" with a small text and link and move on. Remember: You can't optimize what you didn't measure. To get it the word out is probably more important right now. Best regards, Claus On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 10:35 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > >>> I've came up with an alternative for the Friends of GNOME button. I've > >>> got it running on one of my own websites. You can see the result here. > >>> http://test.hightechstartups.nl/friends/ > >>> > >> I feel this is a bit too much diversion for the front page. It was designed > >> with the primary goal of pushing people to donate, and I don't want to > >> drift > >> away from this too much. > >> A link beneath the link to "List of previous donors" should probably be > >> enough. > >> > > > > I'm afraid that if we put a link below "List of previous donors" > > nobody will notice it and I believe it's key to get many people to put > > a badge on their site. I also agree with you that currently my > > proposal is a bit noisy and could distract too much. Especially the > > HTML code distracts. What about this version > > > > http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/ > > > > Both the button and the hyperlink link to the pages with the badges > > > I'm still not quite happy about it. > Our number one goal is to get people to donate, to get others to donate > is a secondary goal. > When I first enter the page now, it appears that I can become a friend > of GNOME either by putting a badge on my website, or by donating money. > It's too prominent now, especially as it's placed in the top, right corner. > - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list