On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 15:52 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
http://www.blender.org/download/ (after you click your desired option, it starts the download but
also
offers the chance to make a donation).
I think that's pretty tasteful and the users get what they're coming for with no unnecessary reading prior to getting it. If they stick around and continue to read, they can choose an option to support us if they want.
That's a really good example of how I see our functionality. Plus it'll incentivise us to make our download page less sucky, which is a shame because it's 70% of our website hits.
I see something like "How can you help: " and "Donate to Inkscape, to improve inkscape we need your help to bug fix, write documentation, blah blah copy editor goes here etc" - and have similar bits for developers and other jobs much like the blender page.
Additional question:
* Should we ever display how much we've gotten? asked for? need? plan to spend?
I'm thinking of transparency and how most organisations who take donations doesn't really say what they're taking in. I really liked kickstarter or kickstarting an honesty about how much money is involved and how that's carried over to other sites like subbable.
Martin,