Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-05 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 4/5/13 4:22 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > >> We can easily copy the "Donate" button from the footer to the topnav. >> >> > The pages are already so busy that making anything stand out is rather > difficult. > > I'll give you an example. We (Samer

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 4/5/13 12:38 AM, Joseph Schaefer wrote: > FWIW last time I checked there was a huge increase > in paypal donations once OpenOffice adjusted it's > contribution page accordingly. > that is what I have expected of course. I know the numbers of the past ;-) But we can do better and can benefit al

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > We can easily copy the "Donate" button from the footer to the topnav. > > The pages are already so busy that making anything stand out is rather difficult. I'll give you an example. We (Samer and I) did an experiment with different placements

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Dave Fisher
We can easily copy the "Donate" button from the footer to the topnav. We can request that l10n teams add a translated donate button for their language. If they haven't translated their brand and topnav now would a time to do so. We would want to translate the fundraising page, too. Is this a ve

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel Shahaf
You might want to talk to fundraising@ before you do anything --- not as much for permission as for ideas on how to frame the "Please donate" request. (fundraising@ is privately-archived) Joseph Schaefer wrote on Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 18:38:18 -0400: > FWIW last time I checked there was a huge inc

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Joseph Schaefer
FWIW last time I checked there was a huge increase in paypal donations once OpenOffice adjusted it's contribution page accordingly. On Apr 4, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Raphael Bircher wrote: >> Am 04.04.13 14:22, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: >>> And opinions or further ideas how we

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Raphael Bircher wrote: Am 04.04.13 14:22, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: And opinions or further ideas how we can improve this? It shouldn't be a big problem for us to collect the money we need. I disagree. Yes, we can help with foundings for ASF, but please do this on ASF Level. Founding money is not

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 04/04/2013 04:29 PM, schrieb Raphael Bircher: > > Am 04.04.13 14:22, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> in relation to our budget planning I asked myself if OpenOffice has any >>> impact on the donations to the ASF? Well I don't kn

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 04/04/2013 04:29 PM, schrieb Raphael Bircher: Am 04.04.13 14:22, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: Hi, in relation to our budget planning I asked myself if OpenOffice has any impact on the donations to the ASF? Well I don't know and we can probably figure this out but the question is what can we do ti

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Original Message- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 07:21 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > > [ ... ] > >

RE: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
to the ASF. Ross Gardler should remember the details. Louis Suárez-Potts knows more about the actual deal also. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 07:21 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations On T

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Raphael Bircher
Am 04.04.13 14:22, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: Hi, in relation to our budget planning I asked myself if OpenOffice has any impact on the donations to the ASF? Well I don't know and we can probably figure this out but the question is what can we do ti collect more donations and use our brand more eff

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > in relation to our budget planning I asked myself if OpenOffice has any > impact on the donations to the ASF? Well I don't know and we can > probably figure this out but the question is what can we do ti collect > more donations and u

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 4/4/13 2:46 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:22:33 +0200 > Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in relation to our budget planning I asked myself if OpenOffice has any >> impact on the donations to the ASF? Well I don't know and we can >> probably figure this out but the ques

Re: [Proposal]: Call for donations

2013-04-04 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:22:33 +0200 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > in relation to our budget planning I asked myself if OpenOffice has any > impact on the donations to the ASF? Well I don't know and we can > probably figure this out but the question is what can we do ti collect > more donations