[GRASS-PSC] Publicity about donations ?

[Margherita Di Leo]

Moritz,

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 9:18 AM Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Yesterday we received a donation of 10,00€ from someone, with the message:
>
>  >Thanks for your work! just a little contribution for GrassGIS
> >development
>
> What do you think: should we send a public thank you for every donation
> received to the grass-user mailing list ? Should we create a list of
> names of all donors in the current year ?
>

> If we decide to do some publicity, we should add something like
>
> "All donors are listed at http://XXX.CCC [or: All donors are announced
> on the grass-user list]. If you prefer to remain anonymous, please say
> so explicitely in the message accompanying your donation."
>
> at
>
> https://grass.osgeo.org/donations/
>
> Any opinions ?
>


+1 I like the idea to publicly acknowledge donors, even for small amounts.
It communicates the importance of the gesture. About how to do so: both
announcing every donation in ML and listing all donors in one place sound
good to me. This could also have an emulation effect. Sometimes a person
could refrain for donating a small amount thinking that it doesn't have an
impact after all, but also small donations are important. Not to mention
the fact that they contribute to build a positive image of the software
value within the community.

My 2 eurocents,

-- 
Margherita Di Leo
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