On 24 February 2016 at 12:00, Andreas Nilsson <li...@andreasn.se> wrote: > On 2016-02-23 11:49, Allan Day wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome.png > > > I like these changes. > One thing that struck me is that there is a lot of content to shift through > before getting to the donate buttons. > Might be worth a shot to flip the order of "Ways to donate" and "How > donations help GNOME". Ideally, the text at the top of the page is > convincing enough, but for those who don't find it convincing enough, they > can see the header of the part with more explanation on how the money is > being used. > > > Some of the texts are indeed very long. Took a stab at shortening them a > bit. Might be a bit too short now, but I tried to take it to the core. > Probably less critical to keep them short if we flip the order of the two > sections I mentioned above. > > "Hackfests > These are events when GNOME contributors get together to work on specific > parts of GNOME. > In 2015, GNOME sponsored XXX contributors to attend XX hackfests thanks to > donations to the project." > > "Conferences > These are events where GNOME contributors are able to get together, share > experiences, and decide on the direction of the project. > In 2015, donations helped sponsor XXX to attend GNOME conferences in Europe, > North America, South America and Asia."
This isn't really true: the conference travel budget is usually covered by conference sponsorship and last time a conference made a loss was at least over two years ago and possibly longer. > "Infrastructure > GNOME could not operate without it's development infrastructure. These > systems require a lot of time and effort to keep running and to improve them > over time." > > - Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
