On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 11:13, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com> wrote:
We have an open ticket for a donate button in trac - and have had so for
quite some time.
However I am of two minds after watching a presentation “please sell
something” by Piero from open drone map about the value of a donate
button.
Software by donation kind of gives the wrong impression about the value of
open source software.
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:05 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
Answering a question to info at osgeo I realized we don't have one big
obvious button to donate to OSGeo on our website. And also, half of the
buttons to donate to the TGP don't work.
I am not sure if we have a simple link or if it is a PayPal thing that
makes a dynamic button that breaks if you try to copy the link. Does anyone
know how to fix it? It would be good to have some kind of short url to send
when people ask about donations.
I experimented with Michael yesterday and was able to make a donation button on the geoserver wiki, along with instructions for sponsorship which other projects may benefit form.
A key thing is asking Michael (with PayPal login) to generate a “hosted_button_id” that includes the project’s name.
The ticket started with a recommendation, but really any one will work. The reason we cannot use an HTML snippet can be seen on the TGP page where the button is provided by a form, resulting in the page being edited as HTML. Each time the visual editor is used the form is broken. Indeed the page looks odd right now (multiple bullet points) because of being edited by hand…
I think an HTML widget could be safer, as it's an isolated code block on
the side of the page or bottom, not in the page content.
However I'm not sure how we would populate that snippet with anything
other than the main OSGeo donate. So a plugin that let's you customize
the campaign per page makes sense if you want to tag pages for sub
donations.
Thanks,
Alex
On 7/18/19 10:41, Jody Garnett wrote:
I experimented with Michael yesterday and was able to make a donation
button on the geoserver wiki, along with instructions for sponsorship which
other projects may benefit form.
A key thing is asking Michael (with PayPal login) to generate a
"hosted_button_id" that includes the project's name.
The ticket started with a recommendation, but really any one will work. The
reason we cannot use an HTML snippet can be seen on the TGP page
<https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/foss4g-travel-grant-program/> where the
button is provided by a form, resulting in the page being edited as HTML.
Each time the visual editor is used the form is broken. Indeed the page
looks odd right now (multiple bullet points) because of being edited by
hand...
--
Jody Garnett
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 09:24, Alex Mandel <tech_dev@wildintellect.com>
wrote:
Seems the ticket stalled with no clear decision on which plugin to use
to get the desired functionality.
Do we have any numbers on previous amounts collected via website
donation? Just want to make sure it's more than the cost of the
suggested plugin.
FYI the cost is auto-updates, support and in some cases add-on support
for features we may want.
So it does appear we could install and configure without subscribing, in
order to test on our dev site.
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 11:13, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com>
wrote:
We have an open ticket for a donate button in trac - and have had so for
quite some time.
However I am of two minds after watching a presentation “please sell
something” by Piero from open drone map about the value of a donate
button.
Software by donation kind of gives the wrong impression about the value
of
open source software.
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:05 AM María Arias de Reyna <
delawen@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
Answering a question to info at osgeo I realized we don't have one big
obvious button to donate to OSGeo on our website. And also, half of the
buttons to donate to the TGP don't work.
I am not sure if we have a simple link or if it is a PayPal thing that
makes a dynamic button that breaks if you try to copy the link. Does
anyone
know how to fix it? It would be good to have some kind of short url to
I think the widgets use a newer API and can “prefill” a comment. The main reason to use something other than an html widget is to automate the thank you reply and provide a breakdown of donations by project / activity.
This page now has a generic Donate call-2-action button on the top that can be used. There is also a heading on How to Donate that includes a working pay pall image with a Link To Custom URL which seems to work as intended.
For instructions on how to set this up for any page see ToDo Issue 35 which has a sample URL, and a screen snap of how the image was added to that page.
I think the How to Sponsor page is more appropriate then having a Donate button on home page - because the goal of the home page is to communicate how OSGeo can help visitors. Adding a donation button changes the story to how visitors can help OSGeo
The only downside here is the overhead required for the treasurer to keep track of any contributions intended for specific projects. I don’t know if PayPal offers any kind of breakdown …
