On Thursday 01 April 2010 18:41:55 Stormy Peters wrote: > What varies is the gifts. It wouldn't be cost effective to send a tshirt to > people in India donating $10/year. Especially since we currently ship from > the US.
My guess is that $10/year is less than the average of what students may spend, and I understand that it won't be cost-effective at all, but $60/year seems to be very reasonable. People who cannot spend $60/year can give as 'normal' donors, and we may think of a 'Friendship grant' similar to FSFE's 'Fellowship grant'[0], which is a program to select limited number (three in FSFE) every month by a committee to get paid for by a sponsoring company and to get the same advantages of a "normal" friend.. A program that'd benefit everyone and make the low-income person a potential contributor when things get better--Let's focus on the $60/year option for now anyway. > But I don't think people are concerned about the gifts. What are people > looking for with a "student level"? Right now you can donate any amount and > be a "Friend of GNOME." It's nice to get a 'thank you' for the yearly contribution, it's even nicer to give people with less income the same 'thank you' as the higher level ($120/year). A simple one-time 'thank you' would make them continuous contributors. [0]: http://fellowship.fsfe.org/grant.en.html -- Osama Khalid An FSF member -- Support software freedom. <http://fsf.org/jf?referrer=8035> TinyOgg: Watch YouTube without Flash: <http://tinyogg.com> _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
