Fwd: Improving the Friends of GNOME donation pages

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

I think Glynn has some really good feedback on our Friends page. Can someone help implement some changes that take it into account? Lucas? Someone else?

Thanks,

Stormy

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From: Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster sun com>
Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Improving the Friends of GNOME donation pages
To: Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>


Hey,

When you click on the 'Proceed with your donation' button, it goes to a page where it looks like the only options are

       o Options specific to that level of donation eg. t-shirt size
       o Select if you want to receive that gift
       o Select whether you want your name on the donors page
       o Add comments

The important box with the dollar figure is small, and pushed out at the end of the first line. All the options above are highlighted in green, but the dollar figure section is not. I'd suggest having a header 'Select donation amount:' in green, and bringing the box onto a separate line.  I'd also wrap the larger comments box below 'improve the GNOME Foundation:' text.

Bonus points would be if you could somehow create a slider widget that allows the user to drag the dot between two extremes ie.

       Thank you! $25                                                             You are awesome, thank you! $100
            <------------------- o -------------------------------------------------------------------->
                                      $50

(or something similar to try and encourage more love for a higher dollar amount)

I'm sure there's some clever articles around the net about donation sites and how to maximize donations. Friends of GNOME is a nice set of pages, but I think more could be done. How about recording a few  different people at GUADEC in a quiet room asking them to say how much we appreciate donations and what they go for. "I'm Vincent Untz. I've been a GNOME developer for the past 8 years. The money you've just  donated has helped people like me to maintain the GNOME panel and have the opportunity of face to face meetings with other GNOME developers. In 2007 we visited a school yadda yadda yadda ... Thank you so much for donating to the GNOME Foundation, we really appreciate your support". Perhaps a whacky idea :)


Glynn