<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Okay Alex I made some progress on this, perhaps we are working too hard ...<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/">https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>This page now has a generic <b>Donate</b> call-2-action button on the top that can be used. There is also a heading on <b>How to Donate</b> that includes a working pay pall image with a Link To Custom URL which seems to work as intended.</div><div><br></div><div>For instructions on how to set this up for any page see <a href="https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/35">ToDo Issue 35</a> which has a sample URL, and a screen snap of how the image was added to that page.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/">How to Sponsor page</a> is more appropriate then having a Donate button on home page - because the goal of the home page is to communicate how OSGeo can help visitors. Adding a donation button changes the story to how visitors can help OSGeo :)</div><div><br></div><div>The only downside here is the overhead required for the treasurer to keep track of any contributions intended for specific projects. I don't know if PayPal offers any kind of breakdown ...</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 11:18, Alex M <<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think an HTML widget could be safer, as it's an isolated code block on<br>
the side of the page or bottom, not in the page content.<br>
<br>
However I'm not sure how we would populate that snippet with anything<br>
other than the main OSGeo donate. So a plugin that let's you customize<br>
the campaign per page makes sense if you want to tag pages for sub<br>
donations.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Alex<br>
<br>
On 7/18/19 10:41, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
> I experimented with Michael yesterday and was able to make a donation<br>
> button on the geoserver wiki, along with instructions for sponsorship which<br>
> other projects may benefit form.<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Sponsor" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Sponsor</a><br>
> <br>
> In markdown format the snippet is:<br>
> <br>
> [![](paypal_donate.png)](<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?*cmd*" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?*cmd*</a><br>
> =_s-xclick&*hosted_button_id*=4XZ76BZMEWZ24&*source*=url)<br>
> <br>
> A key thing is asking Michael (with PayPal login) to generate a<br>
> "hosted_button_id" that includes the project's name.<br>
> <br>
> The ticket started with a recommendation, but really any one will work. The<br>
> reason we cannot use an HTML snippet can be seen on the TGP page<br>
> <<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/foss4g-travel-grant-program/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/foss4g-travel-grant-program/</a>> where the<br>
> button is provided by a form, resulting in the page being edited as HTML.<br>
> Each time the visual editor is used the form is broken. Indeed the page<br>
> looks odd right now (multiple bullet points) because of being edited by<br>
> hand...<br>
> --<br>
> Jody Garnett<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 09:24, Alex Mandel <<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com" target="_blank">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> Seems the ticket stalled with no clear decision on which plugin to use<br>
>> to get the desired functionality.<br>
>><br>
>> Do we have any numbers on previous amounts collected via website<br>
>> donation? Just want to make sure it's more than the cost of the<br>
>> suggested plugin.<br>
>><br>
>> FYI the cost is auto-updates, support and in some cases add-on support<br>
>> for features we may want.<br>
>><br>
>> So it does appear we could install and configure without subscribing, in<br>
>> order to test on our dev site.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> Alex<br>
>> OSGeo Sys Admin Committee<br>
>><br>
>> On 7/11/19 4:05 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
>>> Here is the ticket: <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2056" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2056</a><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Jody Garnett<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 11:13, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> We have an open ticket for a donate button in trac - and have had so for<br>
>>>> quite some time.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> However I am of two minds after watching a presentation “please sell<br>
>>>> something” by Piero from open drone map about the value of a donate<br>
>>>> button.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Software by donation kind of gives the wrong impression about the value<br>
>> of<br>
>>>> open source software.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:05 AM María Arias de Reyna <<br>
>> <a href="mailto:delawen@gmail.com" target="_blank">delawen@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> Hi,<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Answering a question to info at osgeo I realized we don't have one big<br>
>>>>> obvious button to donate to OSGeo on our website. And also, half of the<br>
>>>>> buttons to donate to the TGP don't work.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I am not sure if we have a simple link or if it is a PayPal thing that<br>
>>>>> makes a dynamic button that breaks if you try to copy the link. Does<br>
>> anyone<br>
>>>>> know how to fix it? It would be good to have some kind of short url to<br>
>> send<br>
>>>>> when people ask about donations.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Regards,<br>
>>>>> María.<br>
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>>>> --<br>
>>>> Jody Garnett<br>
>>>><br>
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