Re: KDE End of Year 2016 Fundraising

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Heiko Tietze
 wrote:
> 2016-12-04 9:41 GMT+01:00 Ben Cooksley :
>> This involves tracking donations as they're made, getting the person's
>> details - assuming they want to be in the draw or publicly
>> acknowledged (not all do), ...
>
> Apparently, all these legal fine prints are out of my sight. What a
> pity that we cannot just move small tips around.

I'll note that those are just our admin requirements for running the
Campaign itself and are unrelated to the Bookkeeping the board has to
do (which is additional).
While I agree it's unfortunate in this instance - our existing systems
for running campaigns are what they are for now.

>
> Cheers,
> Heiko

Cheers,
Ben

Re: KDE End of Year 2016 Fundraising

[Heiko Tietze]

2016-12-04 9:41 GMT+01:00 Ben Cooksley :
> This involves tracking donations as they're made, getting the person's
> details - assuming they want to be in the draw or publicly
> acknowledged (not all do), ...

Apparently, all these legal fine prints are out of my sight. What a
pity that we cannot just move small tips around.

Cheers,
Heiko

Re: KDE End of Year 2016 Fundraising

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello,

On Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:31:43 CET Heiko Tietze wrote:
> On 12/02/2016 11:21 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dimecres, 30 de novembre de 2016, a les 9:54:18 CET, Heiko Tietze va
> > 
> > escriure:
> >> Would be good not have alternatives to Paypal, like gittip or bitcoins.
> > 
> > I hear you're volunteering to help set this up?
> 
> Setting up such an account is a task for the treasurer or the KDE board. Did
> that some time ago for an own project and it was just a click to register.
> In particular Gittip, or https://gratipay.com, sounds good since KDE could
> easily forward tips to contributors.

Just reacting on gittip and gratipay being mentioned. Attended an interesting 
talk last month at Capitole du Libre touching on this kind of platforms. There 
are actually several concerns about those two, one of them is also the fact 
that they focus on the US while we're in Europe which leads to some 
difficulties.

So I'm spreading the information that an extra one appeared, based on gratipay 
codebase and with what looked to me like a better contribution model named 
liberapay: https://liberapay.com/

Just my 0.02€, in case that could be of use to someone.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com



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Re: KDE End of Year 2016 Fundraising

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Heiko Tietze
 wrote:
> On 12/02/2016 11:21 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> El dimecres, 30 de novembre de 2016, a les 9:54:18 CET, Heiko Tietze va
>> escriure:
>>> Would be good not have alternatives to Paypal, like gittip or bitcoins.
>>
>> I hear you're volunteering to help set this up?
>>

Hi Heiko,

>
> Setting up such an account is a task for the treasurer or the KDE board. Did 
> that some time ago for an own project and it was just a click to register. In 
> particular Gittip, or https://gratipay.com, sounds good since KDE could 
> easily forward tips to contributors.

Taking donations from other sources is far, far more than just setting
up an account.
Currently non-Paypal donations have to be manually processed.

This involves tracking donations as they're made, getting the person's
details - assuming they want to be in the draw or publicly
acknowledged (not all do), then having Sysadmin record that in the
list of donors which is used on the website. This takes time on both
the Board and Sysadmin's part.

When one donates via Paypal the entire process is automated and
requires no additional effort by anyone. That's before we even look at
any other considerations the board has to take into account.

Regards,
Ben Cooksley

Re: KDE End of Year 2016 Fundraising

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 1 de desembre de 2016, a les 10:43:00 CET, Boudewijn Rempt va 
escriure:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Dominik Haumann wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jure Repinc  wrote:
> > > On 23. 11. 16 19:13, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > >> We have recently launched a fundraising campaing.
> > >> 
> > >> https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2016/
> > >> 
> > >> You can get postcards (3 designs available and more to come) and
> > >> *exclusive*
> > >> 20 anniversary signed artwork!
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks for your support :)
> > >> 
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> 
> > >>   Albert
> > > 
> > > I posted the link to Hacker News
> > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061873
> > > 
> > > If you have account there vote to make it more visible.
> > 
> > It seems posting this link on ycombinator brought us 80 donations in 2
> > days, quite impressive. Thumbs up :-)
> 
> In my experience, a lot of traffic can come from reddit as well. Did someone
> post it there? 

Yes it has been posted to reddin.

It's defenitely not ycombinator that brought the most visitors according to 
piwik (we don't track where the people that donate actually came from).

> And does anyone know why the banner on planetkde is broken?
> (I seem to remember it was broken last year as well.)

Talked over IRC with Boud, seems it's kind of broken for him only, which is 
kind of weird, if anyone seems the same problem (i.e. the number doesn't 
change from 0 to the actual donation number), please ping me to see if we can 
figure out what's wrong.

Cheers,
  Albert

Re: KDE End of Year 2016 Fundraising

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Dominik Haumann wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jure Repinc  wrote:
> > On 23. 11. 16 19:13, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>
> >> We have recently launched a fundraising campaing.
> >>
> >> https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2016/
> >>
> >> You can get postcards (3 designs available and more to come) and
> >> *exclusive*
> >> 20 anniversary signed artwork!
> >>
> >> Thanks for your support :)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>   Albert
> >
> >
> > I posted the link to Hacker News
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061873
> >
> > If you have account there vote to make it more visible.
> 
> It seems posting this link on ycombinator brought us 80 donations in 2
> days, quite impressive. Thumbs up :-)
> 

In my experience, a lot of traffic can come from reddit as well. Did someone
post it there? And does anyone know why the banner on planetkde is broken?
(I seem to remember it was broken last year as well.)

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org

Re: KDE End of Year 2016 Fundraising

[Dominik Haumann]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jure Repinc  wrote:
> On 23. 11. 16 19:13, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>
>> We have recently launched a fundraising campaing.
>>
>> https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2016/
>>
>> You can get postcards (3 designs available and more to come) and
>> *exclusive*
>> 20 anniversary signed artwork!
>>
>> Thanks for your support :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>
>
> I posted the link to Hacker News
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061873
>
> If you have account there vote to make it more visible.

It seems posting this link on ycombinator brought us 80 donations in 2
days, quite impressive. Thumbs up :-)

Dominik

KDE End of Year 2016 Fundraising

[Albert Astals Cid]

We have recently launched a fundraising campaing.

https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2016/

You can get postcards (3 designs available and more to come) and *exclusive* 
20 anniversary signed artwork! 

Thanks for your support :)

Cheers,
  Albert