Hi :) James didn't get quite far enough. It's a page or so further on. The way page is set-up it does look as though you do HAVE TO make a donation before the download will start. It's only the geeks that will notice their own web-browser is the only thing blocking the download from really starting.
The marketing team did discuss this and various other options but the technology is not quite their yet to allow the whole thing to be more polite and less demanding. After a lot of discussion they finally settled on doing the same as other projects, such as Ubuntu and many others. Actually Ubuntu's is more demanding. With them you get a list of areas where you suggest which areas you want your donation to be targeted towards (with no promise it will be used for that (to avoid accountancy nightmares)) and you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page before you see something like "get me out of here, skip all this and just do the download" If i hadn't been so involved in the discussion in marketing then i would probably have stopped around the same point as James tbh. It's only because i was so irate at the time that i went further to check. As it's turned out it's not been quite as bad as i feared. There have only been a couple people who didn't quite notice and then grumbled about something. The technology nearly is there but it's not smooth and doesn't always work reliably on all systems and all web-browsers. Regards from Tom :) On 18 November 2013 13:15, James Knott <[email protected]> wrote: > josephine mcdonald wrote: >> hi, i donated $10.00 via pay-pal 11/18/13... but now i'm having trouble >> downloading libreoffice.. i can't get past the page asking for a donation?? >> can you help? > > You don''t have to make a donation to download, though it's certainly > appreciated. Where are you trying to download from? I just tried > www.libreoffice.org and the only mention of donation was at the bottom > of the first page. I was able to go directly to the download page > without having to make any donation. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
