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

[From: ds]

Hey,

I would love any way, as everything is better than the situation now.

I tried to discuss it in 2008

http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:donation_on_download_page

I have a donation button on the garage home page of my product, but this
has very low success. A donation button in Appmanager would be great.

Of cause, every application could ask for donation during install, but I
would love to show, that donations are the standard way of supporting
applications in maemo.org/downloads:-)

Detlef

Am Freitag, den 22.01.2010, 12:31 +0000 schrieb Valerio Valerio:
> Hey,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Sascha Mäkelä
> <sascha.makela at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Yes, I would definitely be in favour of a centralised donation
>         system.
>         However, instead of the suggested amount set by the author,
>         why not
>         have a general minimum amount (say like €1) accepted per app?
>         Then the
>         the user who wants to donate, would select the amount and the
>         app(s). 
> 
> Seems a really good plan, I'm with Sascha here, we can agree in a
> minimum and eliminate one of the extra fields.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Valério Valério
> 
> http://www.valeriovalerio.org
>  
> 
>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         Sascha 
>         
>         
>         On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 13:55, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>
>         wrote:
>         > BACKGROUND
>         > ~~~~~~~~~~
>         > A number of articles recently have talked about Ovi Store as
>         the only
>         > "real" app store for Maemo; massively overlooking
>         > http://maemo.org/downloads/
>         >
>         > 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
>         >
>         >
>         > REQUIREMENTS
>         > ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>         >  * User can make quick donations to apps they like.
>         >  * There is a suggested amount, set by the author, to
>         indicate
>         >    that even small donations are appreciated.
>         >  * The button is in a consistent and logical location, with
>         >    the easiest place to put it on maemo.org/downloads/ and
>         >    probably also maemo.org/packages/.
>         >  * Developers can receive donations direct from the users,
>         without
>         >    maemo.org taking a cut.
>         >
>         >
>         > SPECIFICATION
>         > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>         > Two new debian/control fields would be introduced:
>         >
>         >  XB-Maemo-Suggested-Donation - amount, in dollars (or euros)
>         which
>         >      would be shown on the button. If not present, no
>         donations
>         >      are expected.
>         >
>         >  XB-Maemo-Donation-Recipient - email address to whom user
>         will
>         >      be donating.
>         >
>         > Downloads and Packages would be updated[1] to show a button
>         at the
>         > bottom right of the package description:
>         >
>         >   "Donate $2" (showing the amount from
>         Maemo-Suggested-Donation)
>         >
>         > ...with a small "what's this?" link underneath linking to a
>         help page
>         > explaining that it's entirely voluntary, maemo.org takes no
>         cut and is
>         > a direct donation, using PayPal, between you and the
>         maintainer.
>         >
>         > Clicking the button will use the PayPal API[2] to redirect
>         the user to
>         > a "$PACKAGE donation" page with the amount prefilled and the
>         recipient
>         > fixed.
>         >
>         >
>         > NEXT STEPS
>         > ~~~~~~~~~~
>         > There are Brainstorm and Talk threads on this issue; so the
>         > next-steps, as I see it are:
>         >
>         >  * Link up discussions from elseweb.
>         >  * Find a stakeholder (happy for it to be me)
>         >  * Come to a consensus on the technical implementation, and
>         get signed off
>         >    by X-Fade.
>         >  * Develop the changes and submit to maemo2midgard.
>         >  * Test, deploy & use.
>         >
>         > Perhaps this is an opportunity to use the project management
>         approach
>         > outlined by Stskeeps[3]?
>         >
>         > Comments, as ever, very welcome.
>         >
>         > Cheers,
>         >
>         > Andrew
>         >
>         >
>         > [1]
>         https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=maemo2midgard
>         > [2]
>         https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_html_donation_buttons
>         > [3] http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=41092
>         >
>         > --
>         > Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew at bleb.org  |
>          http://www.bleb.org/
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