+∞ This is a fantastic idea.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: > How about we negotiate 0% transaction charge and they match the donation. > It shows their support and is chump change to them. > On Oct 7, 2011 9:47 AM, "Brion Vibber" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2011/10/7 church.of.emacs.ml <[email protected]> > > > >> How about making a free version and an (identical!) "Support Wikipedia" > >> version that has absolutly the same features, but costs $2 that go to > >> WMF as a donation? :) > >> Why we should do this: It's an extremly simple way for users to donate > >> money. No entering of credit card or bank account information necessary, > >> just select one app instead of another. > >> > > > > This would be pretty straightforward to do, I think. > > > > > >> Very rough estimate: 20M total downloads, 0.5% download the "Support > >> Wikipedia" version for $2, that's $200k. > >> > > > > Note that the app-store middlemen take a 30% transaction fee, so we'd get > > $140k and Google or Amazon (or Apple if we do an iPhone version same way) > > gets $60k. 30% sounds high but probably isn't much worse than individual > $2 > > credit card payments. :) > > > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Fundraising mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraising > > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer Fundraising/Features/Offline/Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
