Re: Consolidating donor groups

[Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder computer org>]

The current donor list is actually awful and quite wrong. My bank mails the foundation a check for $100 every month (so the foundation doesn't have to pay paypal or CC processing fees) and has since 2008 I believe yet I only show up as a donor for 2009. My bank statement says otherwise as does the epic circuit board foot plaque[1] Behdad so graciously sent me. Pretty sure I'm the only individual who has one of those currently.

It doesn't really matter (to me) how much someone sends the foundation or the foundation says they gave as an individual. Everyone gives within their own means. However, we should make sure to emphasize the more sizable corporate donors who help the foundation massively with large investments.

[1] http://behdad.org/blog/mces/image/2gnome-ram-award-you.jpg

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de> wrote:

Hey folks,

I am thinking about the current list of Friends of GNOME. It's a complicated list and we have potentially five categories to put the donors in: http://www.gnome.org/friends/previous-donors/

I am wondering whether it makes sense to get rid of the categories and only have one list of donors. It would make things easier on our side. And while I see that it makes sense at first to distinguish a 1200 USD donation from a 5 USD donation, it's not very well done currently, e.g. recurring donations are grouped by frequency without giving a hint on the amount donated. So we might as well get rid of the categories alltogether.

Alternatively, we bring some visual love to that list, but I am unable to do that.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
  Tobi
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