[maemo-developers] "Donate $x" button on Packages and/or Downloads

[From: Cornelius Hald]

You might also be interested in HeAboutDialog. It's in hildon-extras and
provides a new about dialog. The dialog has the optional buttons
"Donate", "Report bug" and "Visit website". For each of those buttons
you can register an URL.

Cheers!
Conny


On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 16:40 +0200, Thomas Wälti wrote:
> Inspired by TouchSearch, I've started to implement a standardized way
> in my widgets some weeks ago. This includes handling donations:
> 
> The option window always has four buttons arranged 2x2:
> - Settings: brings you the to app-specific settings
> - Help: Opens the app help page, which is a maemo wiki page. (This has
> a number of advantages, like external hosting and editable by
> everyone)
> - About: The about dialogue
> - Donate: Opens a donation page in Paypal. Very easy to setup, just
> one hyperlink.
> 
> I'm persuaded that this is the single most efficient way to do it. A
> developer can easily handle it himself and it is very quick to setup.
> (There is a generator available inside PayPal that allows you to setup
> the form and generates the necessary hyperlink)
> It's kept under complete control by the developer and no community
> effort is needed.
> Paypal is widely accepted, also allows direct payment by CreditCard
> and generally works very well (I've done many thousands of
> transactions over it).
> 
> Try any of my Bluezwitch, Sleeper or Shutter widgets (or the
> soon-to-be-bugfixed recaller :-) to see it in action.
> 
> Happy hacking
> -Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 2010/4/15 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:55, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Similarly, as Ovi takes off, it is interesting to think about how
> >> micro-payments for ones software could make one a bit of money (100
> >> users at $1 each is a nice present); but whilst still having our
> >> software as open source. There've been suggestions in the past of a
> >> "Donate" button on each project's website, but I suggest we thrash out
> >> a scheme - and then implement - a consistent micro-donation system for
> >> maemo.org
> >
> > To kick the ball rolling on this again, since I think we can get quick wins.
> >
> > I've just noticed that addons.mozilla.org has exactly the kind of
> > standardised donation form I was imagining. For example, see:
> >
> >       https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/469
> >
> > Clicking "Contribute" opens a little box asking you whether you want
> > to make a one-time contribution of the suggested amount, a one-time
> > donation of another amount or a regular monthly donation. With
> > optional comment.
> >
> > Clicking "Donate" then takes you to a PayPal "Billing information" page.
> >
> > There's a Drupal module (apparently) which uses PayPal's Mass Payment
> > API[1] and a blog post introducing Mozilla's pilot[2]. Does anyone
> > know how it works? We must have a Mozilla developer around here, or
> > someone with a PayPal connection!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > [1] https://cms.paypal.com/ca/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/howto_api_masspay
> >
> > [2] http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/07/15/firefox-add-ons-contributions-pilot/
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew at bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/
> > Maemo Community Council chair
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