We can easily copy the "Donate" button from the footer to the topnav.
We can request that l10n teams add a translated donate button for their language. If they haven't translated their brand and topnav now would a time to do so. We would want to translate the fundraising page, too. Is this a vehicle for incrementally starting the new web hierarchy? Some variation on the plans that many of us have kicked around? On Apr 4, 2013, at 4:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org