[GRASS-dev] sponsoring idea

[Hamish]

Luca wrote:
> Hi everybody, during the community sprint it was prettify the
> donations page [0], so I'm thinking about the possibility
> to add in the GUI start image under 'Starting GRASS GUI...' a
> sentence to try to increase the donations. I thing a phrase
> like "You can support GRASS visiting http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php" or
> something similar What do you think?

Hi,

I am not totally against it (your wording is good) but it gives
me a bit of a bad feeling to get in people's faces like that.
How about a new tab in the Help->About wxGUI window?
>From a purely technical point of view, the 3 sec that splash
screen is there isn't much to remember a full URL, but is enough
to plant an idea.

(help menu idea taken from the unobtrusive but non-hidden method
used by the opencpn.org software)

I guess it is a spectrum. Our current way may be too hidden and
miss eyeballs, and at the other end is like GpsBabel which pushes
you to a donate page before you can download from the website
from javascript-obfuscated URLs-- that's the sort of thing which
leaves me with a bad feeling about the software and less likely
to contribute my spare dev time to help someone else's profits.
 ..delicate balance.. the most valuable thing we have is the
goodwill of the community -the codebase would have been dead many
years ago without it- and we must protect that above all else.


2c shrug,
Hamish