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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

It has potential to reduce clicks.

But feel free to suggest a change in the visual style that can
accommodate two buttons without degrading the website visually or
psychology reducing donations too (the "wow these guys look desperate"
effect)

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 5:49 PM Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Adding clicks reduces the chance you'll get a donation.
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 5:31 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On 11/22/19 3:23 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> > On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 18:03, Wayne Stambaugh <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 have admin access on it, but I think you got it as well from the
>> > original creator (Sujith Anandan) of it. I don't really maintain it,
>> > facebook is not really my thing.
>>
>> It's not my thing either but I thought I would add the announcement
>> there.  I don't recall ever getting admin access.  I did get the twitter
>> admin login information.  Do you have Sujith's email address so that I
>> can ping him?
>>
>> >
>> >> 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