Re: [website-dev] Re: Donate to OpenOffice.org

Kay Schenk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.website
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hi all--see below

On 03/07/2010 02:59 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Bernhard Dippold
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Drew, all,
>>
>> Drew Jensen schrieb:
>>>
>>> On 3/7/2010 4:22 PM, Drew Jensen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Didn't there used to be a way to donate to funds to the project from
>>>> the main website?
>>>
>>> oops - sorry, I forgot it is only on the download pages.
>>
>> But I think the question is valid.
>>
>> I'm not sure if people only want to donate some money when they download
>> OOo.
>>
>> The main page links via "Participate" to the possibility for monetary
>> donations. Should this be made more clear?

I would say it is definitely NOT clear that "Participate" also implies
"Donate Money"....so...a footer element or another type of separate
element would be FAR better IMO.

> 
> There used to be a contribute tab about participating in the project
> and money was also included. However this was retired becaused it
> produced a big overlap with "support".
> 
> The page still exist but is orphaned: http://contributing.openoffice.org/
> 
> 
>> Best regards
>>
>> Bernhard
>>
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