Hey, I would love any way, as everything is better than the situation now.
I tried to discuss it in 2008 http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:donation_on_download_page I have a donation button on the garage home page of my product, but this has very low success. A donation button in Appmanager would be great. Of cause, every application could ask for donation during install, but I would love to show, that donations are the standard way of supporting applications in maemo.org/downloads:-) Detlef Am Freitag, den 22.01.2010, 12:31 +0000 schrieb Valerio Valerio: > Hey, > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Sascha Mäkelä > <sascha.mak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I would definitely be in favour of a centralised donation > system. > However, instead of the suggested amount set by the author, > why not > have a general minimum amount (say like €1) accepted per app? > Then the > the user who wants to donate, would select the amount and the > app(s). > > Seems a really good plan, I'm with Sascha here, we can agree in a > minimum and eliminate one of the extra fields. > > Best regards, > > -- > Valério Valério > > http://www.valeriovalerio.org > > > > Thanks, > > Sascha > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 13:55, Andrew Flegg <and...@bleb.org> > wrote: > > BACKGROUND > > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > A number of articles recently have talked about Ovi Store as > the only > > "real" app store for Maemo; massively overlooking > > http://maemo.org/downloads/ > > > > Similarly, as Ovi takes off, it is interesting to think > about how > > micro-payments for ones software could make one a bit of > money (100 > > users at $1 each is a nice present); but whilst still having > our > > software as open source. There've been suggestions in the > past of a > > "Donate" button on each project's website, but I suggest we > thrash out > > a scheme - and then implement - a consistent micro-donation > system for > > maemo.org > > > > > > REQUIREMENTS > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > * User can make quick donations to apps they like. > > * There is a suggested amount, set by the author, to > indicate > > that even small donations are appreciated. > > * The button is in a consistent and logical location, with > > the easiest place to put it on maemo.org/downloads/ and > > probably also maemo.org/packages/. > > * Developers can receive donations direct from the users, > without > > maemo.org taking a cut. > > > > > > SPECIFICATION > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Two new debian/control fields would be introduced: > > > > XB-Maemo-Suggested-Donation - amount, in dollars (or euros) > which > > would be shown on the button. If not present, no > donations > > are expected. > > > > XB-Maemo-Donation-Recipient - email address to whom user > will > > be donating. > > > > Downloads and Packages would be updated[1] to show a button > at the > > bottom right of the package description: > > > > "Donate $2" (showing the amount from > Maemo-Suggested-Donation) > > > > ...with a small "what's this?" link underneath linking to a > help page > > explaining that it's entirely voluntary, maemo.org takes no > cut and is > > a direct donation, using PayPal, between you and the > maintainer. > > > > Clicking the button will use the PayPal API[2] to redirect > the user to > > a "$PACKAGE donation" page with the amount prefilled and the > recipient > > fixed. > > > > > > NEXT STEPS > > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > There are Brainstorm and Talk threads on this issue; so the > > next-steps, as I see it are: > > > > * Link up discussions from elseweb. > > * Find a stakeholder (happy for it to be me) > > * Come to a consensus on the technical implementation, and > get signed off > > by X-Fade. > > * Develop the changes and submit to maemo2midgard. > > * Test, deploy & use. > > > > Perhaps this is an opportunity to use the project management > approach > > outlined by Stskeeps[3]? > > > > Comments, as ever, very welcome. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Andrew > > > > > > [1] > > https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=maemo2midgard > > [2] > > https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_html_donation_buttons > > [3] http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=41092 > > > > -- > > Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | > http://www.bleb.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > maemo-developers mailing list > > maemo-developers@maemo.org > > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
