Re: Friends of Eclipse

[sankarshan <foss mailinglists gmail com>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:

> We have two pieces of data:
> 1) Many people give $25.
> 2) $25 is the minimum you can give and get a gift.

Do many people chose  "Yes" for the gift as well ?

> And some anecdotal data:
> 1) A handful of people have told me they would give $50 (instead of $25) if
> it was the minimum.

But, would they expect a gift ?

> So we could experiment. An easy first experiment would be to change the
> Associate level to $50-500. I'm for that. What do others think?

To me that looks a bit scary. The ceiling is 10x the floor, that would
probably scare away folks who come across the Support page with the
idea "I cannot afford much, but will they be accepting this amount" -
looking at that wide a range would be counter productive since a
potential 50 USD contributor will not automatically increase the
amount to say a 300 USD.

Lastly, in most developing nations, the USD -> local currency rate is
a mess (I can very much see in India), is there a way to consider a
"Starter" contributor that can be pitched to students ?

-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia