[steering-discuss] SPI donation page

Hi all,

Following Norbert remark, I've asked SPI how to appear on their donation page.
Here is what we need in order to do so:
- have an address (e-mail) where the donation notifications should be
sent. As the liaison, I can give mine
(gautier.sophie@documentfoundation.org) if you want,
- provide a donation description, something like: "Donation to support
the LibreOffice projet. The LibreOffice office suite is base on the
ODF file format standard, includes features such as a text processor,
a spreadsheet and presentation and database modules. It is used by
individual and organization worldwide." (copied from the Debian one
;),
- a receipt message (up to 800 chars) like "Thank you for your
contribution in support of the LibreOffice project and The Document
Foundation." something better is welcome.

Thanks in advance for your help and feedback.
Kind regards
Sophie

While there's no problem at all doing this, my experience in multiple groups suggests it's better to create a role alias like spi-donations@documentfoundation.org and then subscribe at least two people to it. This delivers at least two benefits:

* When the responsibility changes, it is a purely internal matter to redirect the messages;
* Having an alias allows the responsibility to be shared so that people can take a vacation!

In other contexts it's also helped with record-keeping (if the alias includes an archiver), audit and transparency.

HTH

S.

Hi Simon, all,

- have an address (e-mail) where the donation notifications should be
sent. As the liaison, I can give mine
(gautier.sophie@documentfoundation.org) if you want

While there's no problem at all doing this, my experience in multiple groups suggests it's better to create a role alias like spi-donations@documentfoundation.org and then subscribe at least two people to it. This delivers at least two benefits:

* When the responsibility changes, it is a purely internal matter to redirect the messages;
* Having an alias allows the responsibility to be shared so that people can take a vacation!

Always forget about this, so long time I didn't have one :wink:
You're right of course, providing an alias is the best.

In other contexts it's also helped with record-keeping (if the alias includes an archiver), audit and transparency.

+1
Kind regards
Sophie

Hi,

While there's no problem at all doing this, my experience in multiple groups suggests it's better to create a role alias likespi-donations@documentfoundation.org and then subscribe at least two people to it. This delivers at least two benefits:

there already is donations@documentfoundation.org that is used for PayPal and Flattr. Shall we just use this one? I can subscribe anyone of the SC who is interested to it.

Florian

Hi :slight_smile:
+1
It is better to use existing systems where possible.  Is it possible this time?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hi Sophie,

- provide a donation description, something like: "Donation to support
the LibreOffice projet. The LibreOffice office suite is base on the
ODF file format standard, includes features such as a text processor,
a spreadsheet and presentation and database modules. It is used by
individual and organization worldwide." (copied from the Debian one
;),
- a receipt message (up to 800 chars) like "Thank you for your
contribution in support of the LibreOffice project and The Document
Foundation." something better is welcome.

especially following today's discussions, can you ask that on marketing@global? :wink:

I guess especially #1 is something for our marketeers to work on.

Thanks,
Florian

Hi all,

So to close this thread, this is now done
https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=47126
and is also listed on SPI donation page.
I'll ask on the website list that this is added to the donation pages.
Note that this allow our American friends to make donations as well as
our Canadian friends to be able to send checks.

Kind regards
Sophie