Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-30 Thread Tom Tryfonidis
Hi, I've updated the pages based on the latest mockups. The link is http://wpdev-gnomegr.rhcloud.com There are some pieces that need to be done, mostly for the mobile view, and some polishing with CSS. Both donation pages work good, the "thank you" page is nearly finished, and we also need to fi

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2016-03-08 at 11:11 +, Allan Day wrote: > Which address does that initial email get sent from? frie...@gnome.org http://hg.cryptobitch.de/gnome-paypal/file/67703e591bf2/createmail.py#l12 > Is there a way that more people could help out > with this part of the administration? The L

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Di, 2016-03-08 at 12:23 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Do you know if that covers only Germany, or some other European  > countries as well? They said that their (German) tax officer said that their (German) tax exempt status applies to EU member states, due to EU legislation.  Of course,

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2016-03-08 12:20, Tobias Mueller wrote: Hi. On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:12:46AM +, Allan Day wrote: I thought that donations were tax deductible in Europe too, though? Donations to WHS are tax deductible. Ah, that was their name! Do you know if that covers only Germany, or some other E

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2016-03-08 12:12, Allan Day wrote: Andreas Nilsson wrote: ... Maybe something like: "The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization and if you live in the US your donation is tax free. Contact your tax office for more information." That sounds better indeed! I thought that donations were

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:12:46AM +, Allan Day wrote: > I thought that donations were tax deductible in Europe too, though? Donations to WHS are tax deductible. Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://m

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2016-03-02 18:46, Allan Day wrote: • The current main page includes the text "GNOME Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and your donation is considered charitable to the extent of applicable law. Consult your tax preparer to determine tax-deductibility." I don't really like the le

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Allan Day
Andreas Nilsson wrote: ... > Maybe something like: > "The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization and if you live in the US > your donation is tax free. > Contact your tax office for more information." That sounds better indeed! I thought that donations were tax deductible in Europe too, th

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-08 Thread Allan Day
Tobias Mueller wrote: ... >> • How does the LWN subscription work? How do donors find out how to >> use it? > > currently, donors receive an email "when it's time". In that mail, they > are being asked whether they want to receive an LWN token. The donor is > expected to reply to that mail. Thank

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-07 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mi, 2016-03-02 at 17:46 +, Allan Day wrote: > • How does the LWN subscription work? How do donors find out how to > use it? currently, donors receive an email "when it's time". In that mail, they are being asked whether they want to receive an LWN token. The donor is expected to reply t

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-03 Thread Allan Day
Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: ... > It might also be nice to also have a wiki page for this whole project, so > that we can see progress and keep it up to date. I'm worried that people may > miss emails and not be able to contribute as much. I ended up needing a place to dump the contents of my brain on

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-02 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... >> • How does the LWN subscription work? How do donors find out how to >> use it? This is missing from the mockups at the moment. > > I can ask Nathan if you like? I'd hope that someone involved in Friends of GNOME could tell us! Thanks for the offer, but let's wait a

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-02 Thread Allan Day
Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > Is there an etherpad with the text you have used for the mock up, Allan? > It'd be great if we could add suggestions there. No but feel free to set something up! > It might also be nice to also have a wiki page for this whole project, so > that we can see progress and ke

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:46 AM Allan Day wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've created a new version of the mockups. The latest version is a lot > more polished than the previous one. I've made an effort to make the > text nice (thanks to Andreas for your suggestions there), for example. > > > https://r

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-02 Thread Nuritzi Sanchez
Is there an etherpad with the text you have used for the mock up, Allan? It'd be great if we could add suggestions there. It might also be nice to also have a wiki page for this whole project, so that we can see progress and keep it up to date. I'm worried that people may miss emails and not be ab

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-02 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, I've created a new version of the mockups. The latest version is a lot more polished than the previous one. I've made an effort to make the text nice (thanks to Andreas for your suggestions there), for example. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/maste

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-01 Thread Allan Day
Tom Tryfonidis wrote: > If anyone wants to try the mockup live, here is a link > http://wpdev-gnomegr.rhcloud.com/ > This is great, Tom! And really useful to get a better sense of what the existing mockups might actually look like. I'll work the designs up with the text from Andreas and some ph

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-01 Thread Allan Day
Andreas Nilsson wrote: ... > Maybe it's time to get the lingo out of "Friends of GNOME" and just call > it "Monthly donations". I don't have a super-strong opinion on it, but > it's worth a thought. > For what it's worth: in the UK it is fairly common to have a "friends" scheme for supporters wh

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-01 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 1 March 2016 at 10:27, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On 2016-02-24 16:34, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> >> On 24 February 2016 at 15:18, Allan Day wrote: >>> >>> Is there something else we could talk about here, instead of conferences? >> >> Maybe other events which are not hackfests? Like stuff t

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-01 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2016-02-24 16:34, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: On 24 February 2016 at 15:18, Allan Day wrote: Is there something else we could talk about here, instead of conferences? Maybe other events which are not hackfests? Like stuff that Julita runs, for example. Yeah, user outreach things, such as

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-03-01 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2016-02-23 11:49, Allan Day wrote: It seems like a good idea to revisit the previous designs to see if we are still happy with them, or if anything needs to be changed. You can view them here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-g

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-24 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 24 February 2016 at 15:18, Allan Day wrote: > Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > ... >> >> > "Conferences >> > These are events where GNOME contributors are able to get together, >> > share >> > experiences, and decide on the direction of the project. >> > In 2015, donations helped sponsor XXX to a

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-24 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... > > "Conferences > > These are events where GNOME contributors are able to get together, share > > experiences, and decide on the direction of the project. > > In 2015, donations helped sponsor XXX to attend GNOME conferences in > Europe, > > North America, South A

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-24 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 24 February 2016 at 12:00, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On 2016-02-23 11:49, Allan Day wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome.png > > > I like these changes. > One thing that struck me

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-24 Thread Tom Tryfonidis
Hello, If anyone wants to try the mockup live, here is a link http://wpdev-gnomegr.rhcloud.com/ It's basically the work i've done here [1]. The "Support GNOME single page" has both donation pages into one, and "Thank you page" is still WIP! Tom [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-lis

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-24 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 2016-02-23 11:49, Allan Day wrote: Hi everyone, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome.png I like these changes. One thing that struck me is that there is a lot of content to shift through before getting to the

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-24 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi! On Di, 2016-02-23 at 12:35 +, Allan Day wrote: > I said "no rewards for donors, like postcards or t-shirts" - that's > the perks. :) You are right, of course. Cheers,   Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-24 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... > I think post cards are awesome, but we *really* need to re-evaluate > who is on that list. ... My concern is that if people are excited about getting a gift, it can easily take the gloss off the experience if they have to wait for it for a really long time. We'

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:49 AM Allan Day wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A couple of years ago the Engagement Team put together some mockups to > redesign the Friends of GNOME web pages. I'm really keen to pick this work > up again: the Friends of GNOME web pages are badly in need of an update. > > It

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-23 Thread Stephen Pearce
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova < kittykat3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 February 2016 at 12:35, Allan Day wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM Tobias Mueller > > wrote: > > ... > >> > >> They miss perks for donations. That may or may not be the intention. >

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-23 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 23 February 2016 at 12:35, Allan Day wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM Tobias Mueller > wrote: > ... >> >> They miss perks for donations. That may or may not be the intention. > > > I said "no rewards for donors, like postcards or t-shirts" - that's the > perks. :) > >> >> Not havi

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-23 Thread Allan Day
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM Tobias Mueller wrote: ... > They miss perks for donations. That may or may not be the intention. > I said "no rewards for donors, like postcards or t-shirts" - that's the perks. :) > Not having perks reduces overhead on our end which is good. > I might prevent

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-23 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey hey! Cool.  I like the mockups. They miss perks for donations. That may or may not be the intention. Not having perks reduces overhead on our end which is good. I might prevent people from donating, though. I think we can live without sending out perks, but as it hasn't been mentioned in yo

Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

2016-02-23 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, A couple of years ago the Engagement Team put together some mockups to redesign the Friends of GNOME web pages. I'm really keen to pick this work up again: the Friends of GNOME web pages are badly in need of an update. It seems like a good idea to revisit the previous designs to see