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Re: KiCad joins the Linux Foundation

 

I'm not sure about adding a second button in the header.

I am envisioning creating a "Donate" page with both CERN and Linux
foundation options presented clearly with one big button for each and a
small blurb for what each does. The header will go to this intermediate
page.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 2:50 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>
> On 11/22/19 2:39 PM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> >> I need to add a "Donate via Linux Foundation" button to the KiCad
> > website main page.
> >
> > But is it in addition to or to replace CERN?
>
> In addition to.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 12:03 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I just pushed a blog post to the KiCad website that KiCad has joined
> the
> >     Linux Foundation so consider this the official announcement.  The
> >     project did this to give donors a choice of how they want to donate
> to
> >     KiCad and it gives us some more flexibility on how we can spend
> donation
> >     money.  This does not in any way change our relationship with CERN
> and
> >     you can continue to donate via CERN if that is your preference.  You
> >     should be seeing announcements from the Linux Foundation shortly.
> >
> >     I need to add a "Donate via Linux Foundation" button to the KiCad
> >     website main page.  If someone would please point me to the correct
> >     place in the website source where I need to do this, I would
> appreciate
> >     it.  If you would rather do it yourself, the KiCad LF donation link
> is
> >     https://funding.communitybridge.org/projects/kicad.
> >
> >     Who has the account login information for the KiCad Facebook page?  I
> >     didn't create this so it would be nice if I had edit access so I
> could
> >     post announcements there instead of asking someone else to do it.
> >
> >     I hope joining the Linux Foundation will improve our potential donor
> >     visibility so we can continue to grow the KiCad project.  Thank you
> all
> >     for your continued support.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     Wayne
> >
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> >
> > --
> > Mark
>


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Mark

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