Re: A $60/year Frinedship option for students
Le jeudi 01 avril 2010, à 11:54 +0300, Osama KM a écrit : Hello, As GNOME Foundation is trying to increase the individual donations, I think it's important to add an option for students who wants to support GNOME financially, an option similar to FSF's $60/year. Many GNOME users are actually students, who may want to contribute to several free software projects, and the current $120/year option may not be available for them. If you select the monthly option, you can actually choose the amount you want to donate monthly. So you can put $5, I think. Not sure what happens for the postcard/t-shirts in this case, though. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A $60/year Frinedship option for students
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le jeudi 01 avril 2010, à 11:54 +0300, Osama KM a écrit : Hello, As GNOME Foundation is trying to increase the individual donations, I think it's important to add an option for students who wants to support GNOME financially, an option similar to FSF's $60/year. Many GNOME users are actually students, who may want to contribute to several free software projects, and the current $120/year option may not be available for them. If you select the monthly option, you can actually choose the amount you want to donate monthly. So you can put $5, I think. Not sure what happens for the postcard/t-shirts in this case, though. Vincent For Indian Student, 500 RS per Annum is good option. this is equivalent to US $10 Dollar -- ┌─┐ │Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │Society for Knowledge Commons │Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─┘ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A $60/year Friendship option for students
Everybody can give at any level, and if they choose, their name will be on the website. What varies is the gifts. It wouldn't be cost effective to send a tshirt to people in India donating $10/year. Especially since we currently ship from the US. But I don't think people are concerned about the gifts. What are people looking for with a student level? Right now you can donate any amount and be a Friend of GNOME. Stormy On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn bk...@ebb.org wrote: narendra sisodiya wrote at 06:09 (EDT): For Indian Student, 500 RS per Annum is good option. this is equivalent to US $10 Dollar I've heard recently about the Ardour project donation system, which has different levels set for the annual giving based on where in the world you live. Perhaps GNOME might want to do something similar to make sure that the right amount is set, with regard to percentage of average income in a given place. I also agree that it's good to have a student-level of giving that matches in benefits to the normal level. Full-time students often don't have a lot of spare cash, however, the student donors of today (at a reduced level) are the most consistent regular donors (at full level) of tomorrow. I believe FSF's membership program has shown that over time. I know many FSF Associate Members who were student donors in the early 2000's when the program was started who are now some of the most consistent and enthusiastic Associate Members today. It's important not to make students feel like second-class donors even if they can't give as much as people with full-time jobs. Same is true for people who live in parts of the world where average income is much lower. -- -- bkuhn ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A $60/year Friendship option for students
On Thursday 01 April 2010 18:41:55 Stormy Peters wrote: What varies is the gifts. It wouldn't be cost effective to send a tshirt to people in India donating $10/year. Especially since we currently ship from the US. My guess is that $10/year is less than the average of what students may spend, and I understand that it won't be cost-effective at all, but $60/year seems to be very reasonable. People who cannot spend $60/year can give as 'normal' donors, and we may think of a 'Friendship grant' similar to FSFE's 'Fellowship grant'[0], which is a program to select limited number (three in FSFE) every month by a committee to get paid for by a sponsoring company and to get the same advantages of a normal friend.. A program that'd benefit everyone and make the low-income person a potential contributor when things get better--Let's focus on the $60/year option for now anyway. But I don't think people are concerned about the gifts. What are people looking for with a student level? Right now you can donate any amount and be a Friend of GNOME. It's nice to get a 'thank you' for the yearly contribution, it's even nicer to give people with less income the same 'thank you' as the higher level ($120/year). A simple one-time 'thank you' would make them continuous contributors. [0]: http://fellowship.fsfe.org/grant.en.html -- Osama Khalid An FSF member -- Support software freedom. http://fsf.org/jf?referrer=8035 TinyOgg: Watch YouTube without Flash: http://tinyogg.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
