You might want to talk to fundraising@ before you do anything --- not as much for permission as for ideas on how to frame the "Please donate" request.
(fundraising@ is privately-archived) Joseph Schaefer wrote on Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 18:38:18 -0400: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
