Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 24 February 2016 at 12:00, Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se> wrote:
> On 2016-02-23 11:49, Allan Day wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >
> > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/master/websites/friends-of-gnome/friends-of-gnome.png
>
>
> I like these changes.
> One thing that struck me is that there is a lot of content to shift through
> before getting to the donate buttons.
> Might be worth a shot to flip the order of "Ways to donate" and "How
> donations help GNOME". Ideally, the text at the top of the page is
> convincing enough, but for those who don't find it convincing enough, they
> can see the header of the part with more explanation on how the money is
> being used.
>
>
> Some of the texts are indeed very long. Took a stab at shortening them a
> bit. Might be a bit too short now, but I tried to take it to the core.
> Probably less critical to keep them short if we flip the order of the two
> sections I mentioned above.
>
> "Hackfests
> These are events when GNOME contributors get together to work on specific
> parts of GNOME.
> In 2015, GNOME sponsored XXX contributors to attend XX hackfests thanks to
> donations to the project."
>
> "Conferences
> These are events where GNOME contributors are able to get together, share
> experiences, and decide on the direction of the project.
> In 2015, donations helped sponsor XXX to attend GNOME conferences in Europe,
> North America, South America and Asia."

This isn't really true: the conference travel budget is usually
covered by conference sponsorship and last time a conference made a
loss was at least over two years ago and possibly longer.

> "Infrastructure
> GNOME could not operate without it's development infrastructure. These
> systems require a lot of time and effort to keep running and to improve them
> over time."
>
> - Andreas
>
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