Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-05-03 Thread Telesto
Op 2-5-2021 om 17:41 schreef Marc Paré: Le 2021-05-01 à 02 h 37, Clocked Modular a écrit : Dear friends, The first thing, I think, what we need is an open source(O-S) public ethics awareness. Not only for our users but for all open-source users. Perhaps, avoid re-inventing the wheel, and link

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-05-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2021-05-01 à 02 h 37, Clocked Modular a écrit : > Dear friends, > > The first thing, I think, what we need is an open source(O-S) public ethics > awareness. > Not only for our users but for all open-source users. Perhaps, avoid re-inventing the wheel, and link our users questioning the definitio

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-30 Thread Clocked Modular
Dear friends, The first thing, I think, what we need is an open source(O-S) public ethics awareness. Not only for our users but for all open-source users. Free and open is not effortless. If all O-S users start to have the perception that even the smallest monthly amount helps them to stay free.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2021-04-28 à 05 h 50, Mike Saunders a écrit : >> So, yes, I am for this. As far as frequency, I favour every the three >> month info-bar. I think every second month a little too quick. I would >> also favour more like: >> >> * after 3 months -- info-bar on "Get Involved" >> * after 6 months -- i

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-28 Thread Telesto
Op 28-4-2021 om 11:50 schreef Mike Saunders: To be transparent of these info-bars, I would like it to appear somewhere on the official LibreOffice site where the frequency is shown and perhaps also the rationale for the frequency and a good explanation of what is meant as "Get Involved" and "Dona

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-28 Thread Mike Saunders
Hi Telesto, On 28.04.21 16:32, Telesto wrote: > > Some say, I have donated, why is bug XYZ not gone. This obviously not > how it works, > but implies a relation between donation to bugfixing. And that's what I > would expect to. But that's exactly how it not works. Thanks for your feedback -- esp

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-28 Thread Sreekanth V K
As others have pointed out we can have many ways to contribute and support the TDF. Is it possible to merge that info together and others can choose according to their capacity? Frequent request may not be a good idea. I think an interval of six months would be good so that it won't look like f

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-28 Thread Mike Saunders
Hi Sreekanth, On 28.04.21 12:31, Sreekanth V K wrote: > > As others have pointed out we can have many ways to contribute and > support the TDF. Is it possible to merge that info together and others > can choose according to their capacity? The https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/ p

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-28 Thread Mike Saunders
Hi Marc, Thanks for your feedback! On 27.04.21 20:18, Marc Paré wrote: > > IMO, best we consider all categories of donations to the project, > whether it be code, design, QA, Docs, Marketing, Advocacy, financial > supporters to the project (this is our donor-base). If one is assuming > that the c

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-27 Thread Telesto
This starts to become interesting. My initial (lazy) view, no objecting against showing the 'info bar' slightly more often. However, Justin is making a good point too. Someone donating code for free (without strings attached) and making LibreOffice what it is and someone else going to nag about

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-27 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2021-04-27 à 11 h 52, Justin Luth a écrit : > You are already getting my code contributions completely free, so IMHO > you should be satisfied with people making general donations to TDF > instead of ever nagging them via infobars. So I still think this is a > bad idea. > > > Justin > > > On 4/2

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice get involved and donation infobars - how often to show them?

2021-04-27 Thread Justin Luth
You are already getting my code contributions completely free, so IMHO you should be satisfied with people making general donations to TDF instead of ever nagging them via infobars. So I still think this is a bad idea. Justin On 4/27/21 5:28 PM, Mike Saunders wrote: Hello everyone, In rec