Luca wrote: > Hi everybody, during the community sprint it was prettify the > donations page [0], so I'm thinking about the possibility > to add in the GUI start image under 'Starting GRASS GUI...' a > sentence to try to increase the donations. I thing a phrase > like "You can support GRASS visiting http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php"; or > something similar What do you think?
Hi, I am not totally against it (your wording is good) but it gives me a bit of a bad feeling to get in people's faces like that. How about a new tab in the Help->About wxGUI window? >From a purely technical point of view, the 3 sec that splash screen is there isn't much to remember a full URL, but is enough to plant an idea. (help menu idea taken from the unobtrusive but non-hidden method used by the opencpn.org software) I guess it is a spectrum. Our current way may be too hidden and miss eyeballs, and at the other end is like GpsBabel which pushes you to a donate page before you can download from the website from javascript-obfuscated URLs-- that's the sort of thing which leaves me with a bad feeling about the software and less likely to contribute my spare dev time to help someone else's profits. ..delicate balance.. the most valuable thing we have is the goodwill of the community -the codebase would have been dead many years ago without it- and we must protect that above all else. 2c shrug, Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
