On Jul 17, 2012, at 4:27 PM, drew wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 14:03 -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@googlemail.com >>> wrote: >> >>> On 7/17/12 7:45 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jul 16, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Jürgen Schmidt < >>> jogischm...@googlemail.com >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 7/16/12 9:12 AM, drew wrote: >>>>>>>> On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 14:24 +0800, Zhe Liu wrote: >>>>>>>>> Hi Juergen? >>>>>>>>> Do you mean this bottom left one on the page >>>>>>>>> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/? >>>>>>>>> I think there also should be one on the header of >>> www.openoffice.org. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I would agree with you - perhaps it could be as simple as a link to >>> the >>>>>>>> current donation instructions: >>>>>>>> http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html#Paypal >>>>>>> >>>>>>> yes or using the PayPal button directly with a one sentence >>> explanation. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> A prominent place for the button on all our pages. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Juergen >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Well an interesting and challenging idea. ALL our pages...do mean this >>>>>> literally? >>>>>> >>>>>> Does anyone have any ideas? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It should be possible to do this via an addition to the header or >>>>> footer. A prominent place would be the upper right, maybe where we >>>>> currently have the Incubator logo. >>>> >>>> I added the link in a the more subtle place in the footer. So far it is >>> only on http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/ >>> >> >> yep! not bad actually... :) Why don't we go ahead with this? It's fine for >> now. >> > > That's great - more to do, but +1 from me to just make that the footer > for the oo.o site... and I see it is..Excellent! > > So leaves forums and the wiki - same treatment for now?
I think so. We are going to an acceptable page. The only question is whether or not to include the "Paypal" hash tag, It is used now. I think that if this direct link to the ASF donations page confuses users we'll find out and can put into place a page in between. We can also have a Donations button to the right of the Search button on www.openoffice.org. Regards, Dave > > //drew > > <snip> >
