On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Peter Junge <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 11/30/2012 5:10 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
>>>
>>> See the fundraising appeal on Wikipedia?
>>>
>>> E.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Magellan
>>>
>>> At the top, bold colors, really gets your attention, but it can be
>>> dismissed by the user.
>>>
>>> Would something like this (maybe with less bold color) work better for us?
>>
>>
>> The problem with doing something similar for AOO might be that the people
>> who are donating may expect that they are giving money exclusively for AOO
>> while the policy says that the money has to go to the ASF without any
>> preferred purpose.
>>
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear. I didn't intend to do that for fundraising.
> The idea was to do a better looking, maybe more effective version of
> the "call for volunteers" and similar messages that we put on the
> homepage.
>
> -Rob
oh! OK. I, too, thought you meant ti for fundraising. Really, I think
what we have now that parallel the blogs mostly for getting folks
involved *seems* to be working I think.
This is all kind of web driven for the most part though. It might
help to post these to "announce" as well for an alternate mans of
coverage.
>
>> Peter
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