[Board] Donate button

Thu Jul 18 13:33:12 PDT 2019

Okay Alex I made some progress on this, perhaps we are working too hard ...

https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/

This page now has a generic *Donate* call-2-action button on the top that
can be used. There is also a heading on *How to Donate* that includes a
working pay pall image with a Link To Custom URL which seems to work as
intended.

For instructions on how to set this up for any page see ToDo Issue 35
<https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/35> which has a sample URL,
and a screen snap of how the image was added to that page.

I think the How to Sponsor page
<https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/> 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 :)

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 ...

--
Jody Garnett

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 11:18, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

> I think an HTML widget could be safer, as it's an isolated code block on
> the side of the page or bottom, not in the page content.
>
> However I'm not sure how we would populate that snippet with anything
> other than the main OSGeo donate. So a plugin that let's you customize
> the campaign per page makes sense if you want to tag pages for sub
> donations.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 7/18/19 10:41, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > I experimented with Michael yesterday and was able to make a donation
> > button on the geoserver wiki, along with instructions for sponsorship
> which
> > other projects may benefit form.
> >
> > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Sponsor
> >
> > In markdown format the snippet is:
> >
> >    [![](paypal_donate.png)](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?*cmd*
> > =_s-xclick&*hosted_button_id*=4XZ76BZMEWZ24&*source*=url)
> >
> > A key thing is asking Michael (with PayPal login) to generate a
> > "hosted_button_id" that includes the project's name.
> >
> > The ticket started with a recommendation, but really any one will work.
> The
> > reason we cannot use an HTML snippet can be seen on the TGP page
> > <https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/foss4g-travel-grant-program/> where
> the
> > button is provided by a form, resulting in the page being edited as HTML.
> > Each time the visual editor is used the form is broken. Indeed the page
> > looks odd right now (multiple bullet points) because of being edited by
> > hand...
> > --
> > Jody Garnett
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 09:24, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Seems the ticket stalled with no clear decision on which plugin to use
> >> to get the desired functionality.
> >>
> >> Do we have any numbers on previous amounts collected via website
> >> donation? Just want to make sure it's more than the cost of the
> >> suggested plugin.
> >>
> >> FYI the cost is auto-updates, support and in some cases add-on support
> >> for features we may want.
> >>
> >> So it does appear we could install and configure without subscribing, in
> >> order to test on our dev site.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Alex
> >> OSGeo Sys Admin Committee
> >>
> >> On 7/11/19 4:05 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> >>> Here is the ticket: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2056
> >>> --
> >>> Jody Garnett
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 11:13, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We have an open ticket for a donate button in trac - and have had so
> for
> >>>> quite some time.
> >>>>
> >>>> However I am of two minds after watching a presentation “please sell
> >>>> something” by Piero from open drone map about the value of a donate
> >>>> button.
> >>>>
> >>>> Software by donation kind of gives the wrong impression about the
> value
> >> of
> >>>> open source software.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:05 AM María Arias de Reyna <
> >> delawen at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Answering a question to info at osgeo I realized we don't have one
> big
> >>>>> obvious button to donate to OSGeo on our website. And also, half of
> the
> >>>>> buttons to donate to the TGP don't work.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am not sure if we have a simple link or if it is a PayPal thing
> that
> >>>>> makes a dynamic button that breaks if you try to copy the link. Does
> >> anyone
> >>>>> know how to fix it? It would be good to have some kind of short url
> to
> >> send
> >>>>> when people ask about donations.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> María.
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> >>>> Jody Garnett
> >>>>
> >>>
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