[Qgis-psc] Donation management

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 16/07/2014 12:46, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:

> Thanks to Juergen, handling of donations is now smooth and painless.
> All PayPal donations go to source/site/about/donors.inc, and an automatic reply is
> sent to the donor. I'm deeply grateful to Juergen for this.
> 
> Now I think we can leverage on this work to make the whole process even more effective.
> 
> I think we could:
> * save the scripts and configs that handle this, for future reference and possible
> updates (I'm not so sure PayPal formats will remain untouched)
> * document the process in the governance documents
> * restart a new list for every new version, including all the donations from a
> specified date (e.g. from feature freeze, or from release announcement)
> * move the old donors to a separate list
> * have the page http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html with two lists:
> 
> List of donors for the current version
> ...
> 
> List of previous donors
> ...
> 
> Possibly the second list could be in a smaller font, or folded by default.
> In this way I hope to motivate people to keep on donating for every new version.

Hi all.
I suggest to invest some resources to implement all the above, plus saving all
donation details (date, name, amount, email) on a table (not public).
Any opinion?
All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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