Re: [Ayatana] Software Center Donate Button

To: Akshat Jain <ssj6akshat1234@xxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Software Center Donate Button

From: Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 17:08:03 +0200

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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 16:01, Akshat Jain <ssj6akshat1234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi!
I want to know if there are any plans for having a Donate button for free software projects in Software Center 3.0 or 4.0?

If not then it will be great to have one.

Regards
Akshat

Bringing product and consumer closer to collaborating is definitely the way to go.

Some FOSS projects are more interested in user testing, others want a particular expert for a particular position within the team, others need translation and again others want to live off donations alone.

How exactly you will contribute should be handled by the vendor/developer team.

The simplest way to solve this would be to invite all Software Center App Development teams to create a webpage called "Contribute" consistently on their respective project homepages.

This will also help to bring some more consistency into the thousands FOSS project homepages.

so here again the steps required for your proposal IMO:

* layout a consistent web-interface for project contribution based on http://www.ubuntu.com/community

* add "Contribute" button/page to project homepages of Ubuntu Software Center apps

* add "Contribute" button to already compatible items in "Software Center"

comments?