[Qgis-developer] donate link in help menu

[Marco Bernasocchi]

yes I think linking to our own donate page is better. so if we want to kill
a service we just remove it there.
great you make such a page. can you make the page accept a referrer or
similar variable? it could come in handy to track targeted donations

Marco Bernasocchi (mobile)
http://opengis.ch
On 2 Oct 2013 14:38, "Richard Duivenvoorde" <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:

> On 02-10-13 14:23, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
> > hi all, sorry for crossposting but i think different groups could have
> > different feelings on this.
> >
> > I was wondering, we are looking into how we could get more donations to
> > qgis.
> > how would you feel about adding a donate link in the help menu (like
> > after qgis website)? the link could then point to a qgis.org
> > <http://qgis.org> page  with all possible payments backends we want to
> > support or point directly to paypal or similar.
> >
> > i think this would give us a very simple/visible way to donate
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> yes, I think it is a good idea to put this in the application too!
>
> Now we have a 'paypal'-button on the frontpage of the website, but what
> I actually wanted (is on my todo list...), is one big html page with the
> different possibilities of making donations to QGIS.
> The idea is to make it easy for people to use different ways to donate
> for the project. Yes, I have been looking into the OSM example [0] :-)
>
> We could link to that page from within the application too.
>
> I will create this page this evening, so we can fill it with different
> ways to donate (we have a flattr account now too, for example).
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
> [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Donations
>
>
>
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