Totally agree! 2012/7/16 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>: > On 7/16/12 8:24 AM, Zhe Liu wrote: >> Hi Juergen? >> Do you mean this bottom left one on the page >> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/? >> I think there also should be one on the header of www.openoffice.org. > > well this is at least a link to the general donation page of Apache. > > I think more about 1-click paypal button or combined with a pre-filled > (eg. 10$) donation text field and a page with some more project specific > background information why a donation is useful and make sense. > > I think there exists several ways to make a PayPal donation quite easy. > And easy is of course important here, people don't want to read a dull > page to find the necessary information. > > We should ask for a donation or at least point to the donation option > when people download it but should in general point on every website > people to the donation option. > >>7million downloads should trigger some donations to Apache. The project > is huge, successful and we cause some costs as well. I think we should > leverage the brand to collect more donations... > > Juergen > > > >> >> >> 2012/7/16 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I thought we had replaced the former donation button with a new that >>> goes directly to Apache. I tried today to find it but haven't found any >>> hints for making a donation on our website. >>> >>> Maybe I am simply to silly to find it in the morning and I happy for any >>> hint. >>> >>> But If I am not to silly and there is no donation button anymore, I >>> would like to discuss to include one on all pages. And we should create >>> a page explaining why donations to Apache will help the OpenOffice >>> project. This includes the user forum as well. >>> >>> >>> Juergen >> >> >> > >
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