[kde-community] Fundraising

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Thursday 17 July 2014 10:50:04 Mario Fux wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2014, 10.16:43 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
> 
> Morning
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > +1 too, but I would in addition like to have the "Sponsor KDE..." or
> > > whatever entry in the Help menu, close to nobody will find such stuff
> > > in
> > > "About...".
> > 
> > True. Note that instead of 'donate' or 'sponsor', I'd prefer to have a
> > link to 'support KDE' or 'contribute to KDE', and have it go to a page
> > about more than donating. Give quick links to ppl to tweet, like etc on
> > social media (bit like this: http://owncloud.org/promote/ ) and a link
> > to our pages on how to get involved. In short - it should be about
> > helping out in general.
> 
> To be honest I don't like this idea. Don't make it to difficult to donate.
> It's already finding it under "Help" -> "Donate to/sponsor KDE" -> then
> you'd get a window with our donation page where you decide on the amount
> (with a good default amount) of money and press the donate button.
> 
> I think it's impeding and makes it to complicate to have there a website
> with a lot of text one needs to read or at least get an overview to see
> where one could donate. I agree that donations and other contributions are
> equally valuable but let's not make it too difficult and try to achieve
> everything in one go and in the end nothing at all. Contributing
> (technically, translation, promo, etc.) is a broad and longer-term thing
> where-as a donation is (at least in the beginning) a quick and fast
> action.

Yes, I agree it shouldn't get confusing...

Then again, first asking people to tweet how they like KDE, then asking for 
money makes use of this wonderful cognitive dissonance thing, increasing the 
chance of donation by about 30% I believe. The question then is if that 30% 
compensates for the added complexity...

We can even experiment, if we want. I think the term 'contribute' is better 
than donate in any case, but we can have two different windows pop up (after 
all, it goes via a browser to kde.org anyway, right?) and have one have just 
an amount and a pay button; perhaps with a picture of a hackathon or 
whatever*. And another one a little more elaborate with links to other ways 
of helping out - see what works best based on some statistics. Statistics can 
solve any dispute, haven't you heard?

;-)



* A starving hacker? or a cute, sad looking dragon? A duck swimming in money 
probably gives the wrong impression... Of course, we can always resort to 
ponies and unicorns farting rainbows, Martin would certainly quickly mock 
something up in QML.

> Oh and I like very much the idea of Boud to add right most (RTL: left-most)
> this "Donate to/sponser KDE" action/button to the tool bar of most of our
> apps.
> 
> And btw I somehow plan to have a photo session or two in Randa where I'd
> like to see my son and some other KDE people in front of the camera and
> some tablets, touch screens or other computers to get some nice pictures
> for a new donation page.
> 
> That's it from me for the moment
> Mario
> 
> PS: Of course I think as well that a button/menu entry to "Contribute to
> KDE" makes absolute sense but please add it alongside the "Donate button"
> and don't mix it.

Let's stick with one button and think about the best term. Donate is more 
precise than 'contribute' but the latter allows us to find out how we can 
wrangle the most money out of our user base*...

* that makes me sound evil, doesn't it? But it is all for the Good Cause!
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