Re: Different subscription amounts for Friends of GNOME

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

Hi Guy,

Nice work. If the people like your changes you can sent me the patch
and I can commit it for you.

I'd move the section "Feel like making a difference? Select the amount
you wish to donate every month:"
to the top of the page.

I would also add an option to do $100 and a free form option where
people can fill in the amount they would like to contribute.
We probably should check if the amount is more than 10$ or are we fine
if people contribute less or we should only sent a t-shirt whenever a
year has passed and 120$ has been contributed.

What do others think?


Jaap

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 06:05, Guy Lunardi<glunardi novell com> wrote:
> Stormy,
>
> I looked into this rather quickly but it seems rather straightforward on
> the Paypal side. We need to make a few changes to our HTML form and that
> should be it.
>
> We would need to make the following changes to the form:
>  -  Change "cmd" from "_s-xclick" to "_xclick-subscriptions"
>  -  Add "a3" input which define the amount of the donation
>  -  Add "p3" input with a value of "1" (every month)
>  -  Add "t3" input with a value of "M" (Monthly)
>  -  Add "src" input with a value of "1" (recurring)
>  -  Rename "item_name" to remove "$10/month"
>  -  Remove references to "for a monthly amount of $10"
>
> There are many way to handle "a3" (the donation amount):
>  - We use HTML radio elements like the rest of the form
>  - Use javascript to create the form (unnecessary)
>  - ...
>
> While I was procrastinating this evening waiting for Miguel to be ready
> to go home, I made a sample page with most of these edits:
> http://www.487massave.org/friends/step2.html
>
> It should be live and connect to Paypal... I did not test all the way, I
> don't have any privileges to make changes to the actual page but will be
> happy to walk anyone to the changes I made to the page above.
>
> Best regards,
> -Guy
>
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:29 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
>> Anybody like to take this on? Maybe when you click on monthly, there's
>> a link that says "different amounts" and that takes you to a page with
>> different amounts. (I'm not the ui designer though!)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Stormy
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: John Palmieri <johnp redhat com>
>> Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:14 AM
>> Subject: Re: Friends of GNOME
>> To: Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>
>>
>>
>> Hi Stormy,
>>
>> Nice touch with the e-mail actually.  It is nice to see a human behind
>> all of this instead of the automated beast that is PayPal.  It really
>> took a bit to find out how to cancel the subscriptions but since you
>> have to go through PayPal people will blame them :)  In any case Zana
>> set up a link for me.  I suggested to her that we set up links for
>> $10, $20, $30, $40, $50 and $100 a month (you won't get it if you
>> don't ask for it as it is really a pain to sign up for multiple
>> subscriptions).  This can be done by having the first page redirect to
>> a second page where there are radio buttons for each amount with the
>> $10 being selected by default.  When the user hits the submit button
>> we simply redirect them to the correct PayPal link.
>>
>> --
>> John
>>
>>
>> ----- "Stormy Peters" <stormy gnome org> wrote:
>>
>> > Hey! Never mind my last mail.
>> >
>> > How'd you get a $50 subscription set up??
>> >
>> > Thanks very much!
>> >
>> > Stormy
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Stormy Peters < stormy gnome org >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi John,
>> >
>> > I saw you canceled your Friends of GNOME subscription.
>> >
>> > I just wanted to let you know that we appreciate your contributions.
>> > If there's anything I can do to help you, let me know. (And if you
>> > have any feedback for the Friends of GNOME program, please let me
>> > know!)
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Stormy
>> >
>> > --
>> > Stormy Peters
>> > Executive Director
>> > GNOME Foundation
>> > 970-481-2076
>>
>>
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>> John (J5) Palmieri
>> Software Engineer
>> Red Hat, Inc.
>>
>>
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