On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 16:59 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: 
I'd like to implement this for inkscape.org but it would have to be
blessed by the community since other developers are users may have
valid concerns which should be taken into account with this format.

Things I'm thinking about:

 * Making sure we have suggested amounts
 * Offering something in return? Maybe offer an ability to buy swag?
 * What is SFC's position on these kinds of pages?
 * Have an invitation to contribute other things. Time, bug tracking etc?
 * Give donators a badge on their website user?

I'm looking for any contribution to this discussion, good or bad.
Please let me know what you think.

I think that's fine in general, the concern on SFC's part has been whether we're going against our mission as building Inkscape as Free Software.

For instance, we discussed having a "donation edition" in the various app stores that could, that could include extra templates or extensions. They were concerned that in those cases we could be seen as having a different version of the software (open core, per se) that we were selling. I think even that could be doable, we'd just have to figure out how to walk that line.

But, I don't think that anything you've suggested walks on that line and as long as it's a separate download or purchase independent of the download of Inkscape I don't think we have any issues.

I think that one issue we may have is that the download page is largely owned by Soureforge at the moment, we send someone there, but the page itself is their advertising. I'm not sure putting it at the page before the page where you download would be as effective as I think that you're trying to leverage the fact that they're waiting to see the opportunity to contribute.

Ted