Donations issue on website(s)

[Jean-Baptiste Mardelle]

On 27.07.2017 06:51, farid abdelnour wrote:
> hi jesse
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> i agree that this is an important issue, we should look into it at the next
> café.
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> thanks

Hi all,

Yes, I also fully agree that we need to clarify this. This is a multi 
part thing. First we need to be clear what the money will be for, who 
takes the decisions, and we need to be transparent about it. Then we 
have to clear the technical/practical issues and after that we can and 
have a better visibility of the donate stuff.

I unfortunately did not have enough time at Akademy to discuss it but 
had a few preliminary contacts with people invested in KDE financial 
stuff and will try to send some mails so that I can have more infos 
related to KDE's policy and then we can hopefully discuss what/how/who 
in café.

Best regards
jb

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> 2017-07-25 20:17 GMT-03:00 Jesse DuBord <jesse.dubord at gmail.com>:
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>> So, there've been multiple users across the years who have actually asked
>> how to contribute or to donate to Kdenlive. Amazingly on the Kdenlive
>> website, neither the menubar nor on any page or footer of the website. A G+
>> member was directed to the KDE website (https://www.kde.org/
>> applications/multimedia/kdenlive/), but even when you try to put in an
>> amount and donate, you can't specify that you want the donation to go to
>> the Kdenlive project. Both of these, I believe, are very probably deterring
>> a lot of potential donations to the project.
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>> I'd like to propose that:
>> (1) IF the link mentioned above is the best place to donate to Kdenlive,
>> then a menu link with the title "Donate" or "Give" be placed at the
>> kdenlive.org website header, which would point to "https://www.kde.org/
>> applications/multimedia/kdenlive/".
>> (2) That the KDE admin staff would provide some clear path for users who
>> want to contribute financially to to the project, without the ambiguity
>> that it's just going to some big KDE funding pool and never reaching devs
>> like JBM and the others.
>>
>> I feel like there's a big missed opportunity to acquire donations, here.
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