<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Paolo Cavallini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">* adding a "Consider also supporting these projects" with a link to a<br>
page where current crowfundings are listed<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">So a third button besides "Download now" and "Support QGIS"? If so, we need a short and sweet button text, something like "Fund new features".</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
* adding on the About > Info, close to the mailing list subscription, a<br>
"Donate" button, possibly pointing to the donation web page, and a<br>
"Consider donating also" pointing to the crowfundings page.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Do you mean this about <a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/index.html">http://qgis.org/en/site/about/index.html</a>?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We could implement the crowdfundings page similar to the "latest news section" on the <a href="http://qgis.org">qgis.org</a> front page which pulls the information from a simple feed file. That makes it easier to maintain.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I do not see this as invasive, and could help our developers to reach<br>
more easily and faster their targets.<br>
Do anyone see negative implications?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">A prominent link on the website certainly helps but I think most of the money is raised by actively talking about the crowd-funding initiatives on mailing lists and social media.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I think we have Twitter covered quite well. Does anyone who is on Facebook know how we are doing there?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Anita</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>