On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Steven Edwards winehacker@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
What is the status of the Wine Party Fund this year, to help with the cost of transportation/lodging? I remember quite a bit of it was used up last year...
This also provides a good time for us to publicly seek donations.
On a related note, I noticed when installing TortiseSVN on windows, that the installer has a donation button. Well, two actually, one with installing files on the progress screen, and one at the final 'finish' screen, asking for a donation.
When you click it, it goes to http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/donate.html.
So, two things: A) We really need a donation page. Currently, the donate button on http://www.winehq.org redirects you to paypal, without sending you to a WineHQ page first explaining what the donation is for, saying thanks, etc. It's a bit hard/tacky to send a donation request out if we don't have a page to send them to, other than paypal. B) We could add a button to winecfg for donating (under the 'Name'/'Company' fields in the 'About' tab). It's unobtrusive, non-invasive, and gives quite a bit of exposure (curious users check out all the tabs and would see it).
The donate tab may be a bit controversial, and I'm not proposing putting it in without gathering some opinions first. But I do think it's a really neat idea. There are often times I want to donate to a project, but I'm lazy and don't want to search through the site to find it. A button making it easier for me to do so => $ in their pocket.
-- -Austin