Re: Boosting Friends of GNOME in 2008

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:53 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> 3. Prepare a program for long-term donors
> 
> The idea is to provide ways to easily make monthly donations. We'll
> provide ways for donating 5, 10, 20 or 50 per month (this might change
> but that's the general idea) through Paypal.
> 
> The donor would receive the benefit after the last payment. In other words:
> - If a person donates 5, 10, or 20 per month, he/she would get a mug
> - If a person donates 50 per month, he/she would get a t-shirt
> 
> We could give the benefits in advance but then it could be cancelled
> just after starting...

Thinking about it again, I think we should send the gift up front.  It's
just so much nicer a message than "hey, we don't send you your gift such
that you don't cancel, because you know, we don't trust you".  And the
gift's value is less than one or two monthly payments, so we're not
talking about net loss here.


> 4. Promoting Friends of GNOME
> 
> After we have everything setup (mugs, t-shirts and long-term donation
> program), make a nice campaign to get short-term and long-term donors.
> The equation (in the mug and t-shirt) would be the "moto" for this
> campaign.
> 
> Comments? More ideas?
>
> --lucasr
> 
> [1] http://www.gnome.org/img/flash/gnome-equation.png
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