On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Paul Cutler <[email protected]> wrote:
> June data is out, and subscriptions went way down: > http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/07/21/friends-of-gnome-update-3/ > > I thought it was interesting that subscriptions was the same (100) for May > and June. > > In addition to some of the updates to the program Stormy mentions below > that Jaap volunteered to help with, there are a few more things that have > been discussed that I was hoping to follow up on: > > * Thermometer - shows donation data as it grows (Shaun & Andreas, I believe > you were working on this? Any updates?) > > * Add a "Donate" button to the footer of gnome.org (For example, Gimp at > http://www.gimp.org/ has one right in their right hand navigation) Andreas and I talked about this at the Desktop Summit and I think he was going to do it ... > > > * We're approaching our $20k goal for Sysadmin - what's our next goal, and > how much? (I like goals, I think it helps people to focus on them and want > to attain them) Actually, we haven't. That's why we could use the thermometer. We've reached our original goal for the year of $20K. The sys admin goal was an additional goal on top of that. > > > If anyone wants to grab a task, the help is appreciated! If you want to help and aren't sure how, just propose it here! Stormy > > > Thanks. > > Paul > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I can have a go at it. >> >> BTW how high were the donations in June? Did it go up? >> >> Jaap >> >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 18:46, Stormy Peters<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Who would like to be the Friends of GNOME maintainer? >> > >> > We've gotten a lot of feedback, especially on the subscription process. >> > >> > People would like to be able to: >> > - choose their monthly amount >> > - pick an annual subscription or a monthly subscription >> > - pick dollars or euros >> > >> > And we've gotten feedback like: >> > - the default amount should be at least $25 >> > - make it easy to make a one time payment in your preferred amount >> > >> > And we need it to be easy to just pick the default and go without lots >> of >> > choices overwhelming people. I'm not a usability expert, but obviously >> we >> > can't just keep listing more and more options, we need to branch out >> into >> > drop down lists, etc. >> > >> > Another complication is that Paypal doesn't allow variable amounts, so >> we >> > will have to create a Paypal subscription for every option we offer. >> Rosanna >> > and I can help with that part. >> > >> > Would somebody like to take on the challenge? >> > >> > Stormy >> > >> > -- >> > marketing-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > >> > >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > >
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