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
>> >
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