Re: Different subscription amounts for Friends of GNOME

["Guy Lunardi" <glunardi novell com>]

All,

I will look into the T&C of Paypal's subscriptions and summarize them
here.

Best,
-Guy


On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:49 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org> wrote:
>         Guy, 
>         
>         I agree with you.  I think providing some transparency on the
>         terms for those who want to cancel is a good idea.
> 
> Me too. I've heard it's difficult to cancel. I've even had people
> email me asking me to cancel their subscription for them and there's
> no way we can do that - they have to do it through Paypal.
> 
> People have also had questions about when will the money first come
> out? when will it come out every month? etc. 
> 
>         
>         
>         On a different note - if we are providing more monthly options
>         for subscriptions, should we providing more / different gifts
>         for those who subscribe at a higher level?  Stormy has created
>         the Zazzle account, and Andreas and the art team are working
>         on some artwork we can add to the various merchandise.  I
>         don't know how we fulfill orders at the end of the year, but
>         it's just an idea.
> 
> I'd say let's keep it simple. While I think some gifts are popular
> (like stickers) and people pick the minimum amount that enables them
> to get that gift, I don't think most people donate for the gift.
> 
> The idea behind the tshirt was that it was unique to Friends of GNOME,
> so people can wear it to show their support.
> 
> Stormy
>  
> 
>         
>         
>         Paul
>         
>         
>         On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Guy Lunardi
>         <glunardi novell com> wrote:
>         
>                 
>                 Stormy, Jaap,
>                 
>                 
>                 On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 07:31 -0600, Stormy Peters
>                 wrote:
>                 > Thanks, Guy!
>                 >
>                 > If the month can also be variable, we should add an
>                 option for
>                 > monthly/annual.
>                 
>                 Yes, that's possible, we would just need to expose
>                 "t3" (Day, Week,
>                 Month or Year). Only Month and Year make sense.
>                 
>                 A question to the group this raised to me. We might
>                 want to have some
>                 language here about how people would manage their
>                 "Donation
>                 Subscription". Say something has a crunch or
>                 something, we might want to
>                 know when they sign up how to deal with resigning or
>                 things like that
>                 (would seem like a nice this to make them aware of).
>                 Exposing some of
>                 the terms and conditions from Paypal might be a good
>                 idea.
>                 
>                 What do you think?
>                 
>                 
>                 > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma
>                 <jaap haitsma org>
>                 > wrote:
>                 >         Hi Guy,
>                 >
>                 >         Nice work. If the people like your changes
>                 you can sent me the
>                 >         patch and I can commit it for you.
>                 
>                 I emailed you already, I will be happy to do that.
>                 
>                 
>                 >         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.
>                 
>                 Sure.
>                 
>                 >         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.
>                 
>                 In order to do this, we will need to introduce some
>                 JavaScript
>                 dependency on the page to 'compose the form post based
>                 on user input.
>                 
>                 If we are ok with that, I am happy to prototype it
>                 (should take 1 hour
>                 or so). Right now the form is very clean and HTML only
>                 meaning it would
>                 work on virtually ANY browser and be totally
>                 accessible though I have
>                 not tried. Adding JS might alter that. Let me know if
>                 we want to proceed
>                 with this and I can get it done.
>                 
>                 Best,
>                 -Guy
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
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