Hi all, First, congratulations to all of you in the community who have been working on the fiscal sponsorship and organizational sustainability issues -- I think that's a huge milestone, so way to go!
The copyright/intellectual property status of website content is something that the Website Planning Team (http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=webteam) has started discussing recently. We want to encourage creation and contribution of content from as many community members as possible and encourage distribution and sharing of that content in the most user-friendly manner possible while respecting existing copyright and Creative Commons licensing provisions. Currently, we've bounced this issue to the greater Communications Committee for further discussion. If you have any thoughts or questions or would like to get involved, you can check out our Website Planning Team home page linked above or contact me off list. The donation button/content/process is great news and it's not something that the Website Team has discussed *at all* yet, but I have some conversation starters that I'd like to share. * We don't just want to slap a Donate button up on the site, tell folks *how* to donate, and call it a day. We need to tell folks *why* they should donate, *what* the EG community will do with the donations, and recognize *who* is donating. * With donors comes the need for donor management. Donor recognition, donor cultivation, etc. are all issues that may not be recognized as important now, but will be in the future, so we should be careful to preserve as much information about our donors and their donations as we can. * A "donate" button gets better results if it's part of a larger call to action. Maybe it's one part of an overall drive to have "everyone contribute as they can" - whether that's code, money, documentation, testing time, etc. Maybe it's a drive for a specific fundraising target -- pre-paying for ten years of "evergreen-ils.org" and related domain registrations, or paying the internship salary for a Google Summer of Code intern. Maybe it's just telling the story of an awesome scrappy open source ILS project that is growing rapidly and is seeking funds to build a solid organizational infrastructure to support future growth. Maybe it's a way folks can get a free T-shirt and a warm fuzzy feeling for a $30 PayPal donation. Anyway, congrats again to all of you who have worked on the organizational issues! Thanks, Jim > -------Original Message------- > From: Steve Wills <[email protected]> > To: Evergreen Discussion Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web site updates: Copyright notice and > Donation links > Sent: 16 Jun '11 13:24 > > I too am anxious to help test the donate button. My cats have offered some > of their kibbies as well! > > A link to a donation page with the various options makes the most sense to > me for sure. > > Happy to help flush out links as needed! > > Congratulations you Evergreenies > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [open-ils-general- [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:24 PM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Web site updates: Copyright notice and > Donation links > > Thanks, Dan. I'm in favor of the footer changes you recommend. And I'd like > to see the same thing on the Evergreen OPACs. > > Shall we have one "Donate" button link to a webpage that provides all of the > options available for donating (with an explanation of why one might choose one option over another). > > Lori > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Dan Scott > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi, I'd like to suggest the following changes to the Evergreen web site. > > 1) Change the footer of the web site from "© 2008 GPLS | Partially > funded by the Library Services & Technology Act through the Institute of > Museum and Library Services." to "© 2008-2011 GPLS and others" as there > have been many contributors from outside of GPLS to the current web > site - at the same time, this enables us to recognize GPLS for > originating the Evergreen project. > > Ideally "and others" would actually list who holds copyright over the > website content, but that's probably a crazy pipedream that only a > lawyer would chase :) > > 2) Now that the fiscal sponsorship agreement with the Software Freedom > Conservancy is official, replace the getting-long-in-the-tooth > Conference logo with "Donate" links, per the following information from > Bradley Kuhn, director of the Software Freedom Conservancy: > > """ > You can begin soliciting donations via your website (and > elsewhere). > Here are the methods we support: > > (a) Online services: PayPal and Google Checkout > There are custom HTML for each at the bottom of this email; > please place them anywhere you like on our project's website. > Please note that fees are high for PayPal and Google Checkout, > so if you can, encourage your donors to send checks. > > (b) Donations by check. > We can accept check donations drawn in USD from banks in > the USA. (Donations from banks outside of the US or not in > USD should be handled by wire). > > Ask donors to make the check payable to > "Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc." > and to place "Directed donation: PROJECT NAME" in the memo > field. Checks should then be mailed to: > Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. > 137 Montague ST STE 380 > BROOKLYN, NY 11201 USA > > (c) Donations by wire. > We can accept donations via wire, but we usually send the > the instructions on a case-by-case basis as they are > different depending on the country of origin. Please just > note that donors wishing to send a wire contact > > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>. > """ > > The complete content for donating problem deserves its own (short!) > page so that we can add "Donate" under the now-ambiguous "Contribute" > drop down header. > > Also, please find the HTML for the donate links attached. > >
