Re: Become a friend of GNOME button

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

>>
>> I've took your page and changed it such that the .wml file is correct
>> and pushed it to git. The result is here
>> http://www.gnome.org/friends/spread.html
>>
>> However after I pushed it actually occured to me that it's probably
>> not a good idea to have this called Spread GNOME. We're asking people
>> to financially support GNOME not to encourage people to encourage
>> people to use GNOME.
>>
>
> Some quick ideas for what it could say instead:
> * Promote the Friends of GNOME program
> * Spread the word
> * Collect more donors

I would say we go for "Promote the Friends of GNOME program"


>>
>> Furthermore since we're asking people to financially support GNOME
>> having a button called "GNOME Lover" is probably confusing. If I put
>> the "GNOME Lover" button on my blog and somebody clicks on it an
>> average user will expect to land at the GNOME homepage and not at a
>> donation page.
>>
>
> Right. I'll try to come up with just different sizes all saying only
> "Support GNOME".

Wouldn't it be better that the badges look more like a button. Users
might be more tempted to click on it.


> (as a sidenote, if anyone feels up to creating a simple wordpress plugin
> with graphics+link, that would be amazing!)
>>
>> I've came up with an alternative for the Friends of GNOME button. I've
>> got it running on one of my own websites. You can see the result here.
>> http://test.hightechstartups.nl/friends/
>>
>> The major change is that in the side bar we ask people to promote
>> "Friends of GNOME" by adding a button to their site
>>
>
> I feel this is a bit too much diversion for the front page. It was designed
> with the primary goal of pushing people to donate, and I don't want to drift
> away from this too much.
> A link beneath the link to "List of previous donors" should probably be
> enough.

I'm afraid that if we put a link below "List of previous donors"
nobody will notice it and I believe it's key to get many people to put
a badge on their site. I also agree with you that currently my
proposal is a bit noisy and could distract too much. Especially the
HTML code distracts. What about this version

http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/

Both the button and the hyperlink link to the pages with the badges

>>
>> Furthermore a couple of small changes which I think are improvements
>> 1) At the end a paragraph for companies that might want to become
>> corporate sponsors
>>
>
> Maybe a bit too much outside the scope of the site.
>
I'd say it doesn't hurt either. It's at the bottom of the page so it
does not distract. Furthermore if we really succeed in spreading the
badges the probability of a person representing a company landing on
the friends page is getting high. If we get one more corporate sponsor
by putting up the text here I think it's already worth the trouble

Jaap