On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:47 +0100, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> I guess you could also write the names of the people who donated in a
> text file and use that, but I'm not so sure how to do that in PHP as
> my experience with it is quite limited.
>
> Jaap
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 22:35, Stormy Peters <
stormy gnome org> wrote:
> > What if we did something simpler and didn't worry about duplicates. We could
> > use font size or color to denote different levels of sponsorship.
> >
> > And if they say "yes" to showing their name, just push their name on the top
> > of the page.
> >
> > So it would look like:
> >
> > Friends of GNOME:
> >
> > Jaap A. Haitsma. Stormy Peters. Rosanna Yuen. Claus Schwarm. Joe Smith.
> > Miguel Lopez. Marty Allison. Montse Villanova. .....
> >
> > An alternative to using colors or font size or bold or italics would be to
> > just put the level in parenthesis:
> >
> > Friends of GNOME:
> >
> > Jaap A. Haitsma (Philanthropist). Stormy Peters (Adopt a Hacker). Rosanna
> > Yuen (Sponsor). Claus Schwarm (Friend). Joe Smith (Adopt a Hacker). Miguel
> > Lopez (Sponsor). Marty Allison (Associate). Montse Villanova (Adopt a
> > Hacker). .....
> >
> > If people donated twice, their name would show up twice.
> >
> > Stormy
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <
jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The problem is clear to me. What is needed is access to a database to
> >> store all the names and check if the person is already in the
> >> database. I'm not sure how to get a database up and running for this
> >> on the GNOME infrastructure. I think a MySQL database is running but
> >> somebody should arrange access for it. And I'm not really sure how
> >> handle security for this because the source code is going to be public
> >> in git everybody would see username password of the donation names
> >> database. Probably a question for the sysadmin team.
> >>
> >> Jaap
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 16:19, Stormy Peters <
stormy gnome org> wrote:
> >> > Jaap, Claus,
> >> >
> >> > I was thinking about sending this to the marketing list but thought I
> >> > should
> >> > check with you first.
> >> >
> >> > What do you think? I'm expressing clearly the problem? Is this something
> >> > easy to do or will it require substantial work from someone?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Stormy
> >> >
> >> > Hi Marketing List,
> >> >
> >> > One of the things Rosanna and I have been working on with various other
> >> > people is how to automate as much of the Friends of GNOME gift giving
> >> > process as possible.
> >> >
> >> > Posting people's names on the website[1] is one option we could use help
> >> > with. (It's an option they pick when they donate.)
> >> >
> >> > In the past we've done this by sorting in the spreadsheet. However, with
> >> > Friends of GNOME subscriptions, that option is option #3 and Paypal only
> >> > stores 2 options. So it's not possible to download the data from Paypal.
> >> >
> >> > Paypal suggested using their IPN to send a POST to a script on our site
> >> > with
> >> > all of the transaction data each time a transaction is made.
> >> >
> >> > Is there someone who could write a script that launches when someone
> >> > pushes
> >> > our donate button, checks to see if they want to be on the website, and
> >> > if
> >> > they do, adds their name to the website?
> >> >
> >> > Stormy
> >> >
> >> > P.S. I am manually going back through our records for 2009 to get
> >> > everyone's
> >> > name.
> >> >
> >> > [1]
http://www.gnome.org/friends/previous-donors.html
> >> >
> >
> >
