FWIW last time I checked there was a huge increase in paypal donations once OpenOffice adjusted it's contribution page accordingly.
On Apr 4, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > Raphael Bircher wrote: >> Am 04.04.13 14:22, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: >>> And opinions or further ideas how we can improve this? It shouldn't be a >>> big problem for us to collect the money we need. >> I disagree. Yes, we can help with foundings for ASF, but please do this >> on ASF Level. Founding money is not the task of a ASF project, It's the >> task for the foundation. > > The Foundation is made by its projects, so OpenOffice should definitely help > with fundraising. Consider that OpenOffice (downloads excluded!) generates as > much web traffic as all the other Apache projects put together, or something > reasonably close to that. Also, the OpenOffice infrastructure requirements > (buildbots, management) generates additional expenses for the Foundation that > only benefit the OpenOffice project. > > In short: if OpenOffice can use its web traffic and popularity to drive more > donations to the Foundation, it will surely directly benefit from most of > them. So I agree with Juergen that we should solicit donations. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
