[Debian-sponsors-discuss] ask for a donation during download

[Brian Gupta]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> wrote:
> Mike Milinkovich pointed me to some recent experiences of his and Ian
> Skerret at Eclipse:
>
>   http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/how-to-increase-donations-to-an-open-source-project/
>
> TL;DR: "Ask for a donation when the download is occurring not when a
> user is browsing the project site". By doing so Eclipse has seen a 5-6x
> improvement in donation flow.
>
> Does anyone here see drawbacks in doing so on the Debian website?
> I suggest filing this as a bug against the www.d.o pseudo-package.

This sounds like a great idea. I don't see any downside other than the
work required to implement. Filed bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705209 (Please let me
know if there are any issues with the way I filed the bug. I think I
did it right.)

-Brian

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