Re: New donators roles

[Bharat Kapoor <3 kapoor gmail com>]

Diego

You bring up a very good point - from my perspective if distros want to use this tool for campaign contributions that is fine too and maybe be better as well as a single channel for fund raising for (all parties involved). This opens a challenge for us to develop a decent set of guidelines on how Gnome and Distros work on soliciting donations - so that we (Gnome & Distros) dont look like spammers :)

Any one from Distro side on this thread - can you comment?

BR
Bharat

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Jonh Wendell <jwendell gnome org> wrote:

Em Qui, 2010-06-03 às 00:20 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo escreveu:

> El mié, 02-06-2010 a las 14:28 -0300, Jonh Wendell escribió:
> >
> > It *would* reside in a new About GNOME dialog. That's my proposal. Do
> > you guys agree?
> >
>
> That's quite interesting. One concern: what would hold distros from
> using this for their own donors? I mean, if distros also put their
> donors there, why would people want to pay us for space instead of
> distributors? Or what if a distributor patches the about dialog out?
>
> How can we preserve the integrity of the dialog? A guideline? Good will?

I use Ubuntu and they do not patch gnome-about. They have another menu
entry, called 'About Ubuntu'.

I think if we talk to distributors our wish of having them not touching
gnome-about they will respect that.

Cheers,
--
Jonh Wendell
http://www.bani.com.br