[wx-dev] Re: new promotion of wxWidgets

[Riccardo Cohen]

Hi francesco,

starting with enabling paypal donation is the first step. good idea.
you seem pessimistic about donation, 1200 euros means 100 euros given by 
12 persons, and it seems that we are much more than 12 people that need 
wxwidgets.

Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Julian Smart ha scritto:
>> Anyhow I appreciate the idea and yes, we do need better publicity and 
>> we could well have more on the site about donating.
> FWIW I think that Riccardo is right: if you never ask donations noone 
> will ever donate.
> Currently donating to wxWidgets is at least difficult I think (I've 
> never seen any "Donate" button).
> 
> Sourceforge since some months provides a useful and very 
> easy&fast-to-setup framework for receiving donations through Paypal.
> 
> See:
> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=20244&group_id=1
> 
> basically it just requires you to have a single Paypal address to which 
> donations are directed. It also requires that every administrator of 
> wxWidgets SF project does opt-in in Admin->Donation administration page.
> 
> Then it's just a matter of adding a webpage to the website about 
> donations for wx explaining what&why etc and adding the following:
> 
> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=204465"><img 
> src="http://images.sourceforge.net/images/project-support.jpg" 
> width="88" height="32" border="0" alt="Support This Project" /> </a>
> 
> to each page of the wxWebsite somewhere where it's visible :)
> 
> HTH,
> Francesco
> 
> 
> 
> PS: I agree that small/medium donations may not allow one or more 
> persons to work on wxWidgets as their "main work" (I doubt we can get 
> say 1200€/month or so!) - still something is better for nothing and 
> could be used for e.g. hardware costs or to donate to interested peoples 
> e.g. Macs for development of wxMac or similar.
> 
> PS2: SF now allows you to sell services about Open Source projects: e.g. 
>  I've seen some big Open source projects do sell consulting through it.
> wxWidgets could join the Beta of this SF service at:
> 
>   http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php
> 
> 
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Très cordialement,

Riccardo Cohen
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