This has now been provisioned.

Sorry for some reason I didn't get an email for your previous comment...
I think for now we leave them out and I'll think some more about how we can get them in later.

Ping?

Problem solved going forward I guess, but what do we do about those who are already members?

Argh. I thought that was only available in Donorbox Pro. And of course we hadn't enabled it...
Thanks for digging this up. I've now enabled it for the membership campaign.

Hmm, I thought Donorbox had functionality to record that - https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/ask-donor-subscribe-mailing-list?

Everything except the last point :/
@ognarb @kcoyle Do you have ideas?

I've sent merge requests for all our sites that are either:
a) Static; or
b) Built using a Static Site Generator

Are we able to get a CSV of people and their email addresses out of Donorbox that have ticked a box to receive quarterly updates?

What's the best page to link to instead? https://kde.org/community/donations/ probably

Do we have anyone who can help with this? We need to send the next quarterly email to the members soon and need some infrastructure to make this happen.

We have emailed the members on CiviCRM and asked them to sign up for Donorbox.

Following some feedback from users (and one YouTuber) who have had difficulty finding ways to customise their donations, I suggest some small changes that can solve these problems:

Maybe the link that says "Show your love..." here should not point here anymore, so as to avoid people from accidentally signing up for a system that will be soon de-commissioned, right?

In T4275#298869, @ognarb wrote:

In T4275#298822, @ognarb wrote:

Lays, are there any pages from the web that can help as inspiration for our page?

This one https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/ which we basically just want to copy past to kde.org/donate. I'll see if I can do that during the promo sprint this weekend

Done https://kde.org/community/donations/ :)

But there are probably some more additional improvements we can do

In T4275#298822, @ognarb wrote:

Lays, are there any pages from the web that can help as inspiration for our page?

This one https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/ which we basically just want to copy past to kde.org/donate. I'll see if I can do that during the promo sprint this weekend

Lays, are there any pages from the web that can help as inspiration for our page?

Lays, are there any pages from the web that can help as inspiration for our page?

Hello all,
When we were discussing the use of Donorbox for Membership of KDE, we decided to use fundraising campaigns in donorbox because of the flexibility that we have. And we would have two campaigns, one fore ongoing donations and one for one - time donations.

In T16886#298786, @aronkvh wrote:

Carl has worked a lot on the page, so it's not relevant anymore (but I'm still gonna send it because I'm stubborn), but here's an inconsistent mockup for the fundraiser + a countdown.

Carl has worked a lot on the page, so it's not relevant anymore (but I'm still gonna send it because I'm stubborn), but here's an inconsistent mockup for the fundraiser + a countdown.

The point of this particular fundraiser is to gain more memberships, which cost 100€ per year at the minimum. I woudn't be in favor of making donation methods that don't meet this threshold have equal prominence with the ones that do. I think what Paul mentioned is ideal: a visually de-emphasized link to make a one-time donation if you don't think you can manage a membership.

This is actually expensive. When using the membership feature, donorbox is taking twice as much money as fee, unless we have a pro account :( I asked in the fundraising chat if we are using the pro version

In T16886#298772, @ognarb wrote:

What would be a good idea is more suggestions for other perks to make memberships more attractive. I am all ears.

We tried in the past to add perks to the memberships and this didn't work out. It was a lot of work and money to coordinate everything. We want to be efficient with our money usage.

Aside from adding the name of the donnors in the plasma wizard and maybe also display the name on the donation page (similarly to that fund.blender.org does), I don't think we should do any perks.

>  If you'd prefer a one-time donation, click here.

We were asked to make adding memberships the main thing, and it is what I did. That said, I agree we could make it a bit more noticeable by putting it higher up in the text and make it a button or something.

I put the link just beneath the donation box.

Also I just checked but donnorbox support membership compaign, that we should probably use:

https://donorbox.org/membership-compaign

This allow to define a minimum unfortunately this only support monthly and annually recurrence and not quartely. But 10€/month is similar to 25€/quarterly

What would be a good idea is more suggestions for other perks to make memberships more attractive. I am all ears.

This sounds like a bad idea, a T-Shirt cost a lot (particularly shipping) and KDE e.V. is often covering some of the cost for people outside of the eu. This would eat a significant portion of their donation.

Is the fundraiser team okay with the perk of giving away Akademy t-shirts to supporting members at next year's Akademy?

In T16886#298745, @aronkvh wrote:

can you do a yearly one but paid every month?
if not that, a yearly one that also shows how much it'll be per month?

can you do a yearly one but paid every month?
if not that, a yearly one that also shows how much it'll be per month?

Form would look like this:

In T16886#298741, @paulb wrote:

Thanks @lydia. As I thought.

As it stands, the form allows you to create donations of as low as €25 annually.

Is the fundraiser team okay with the perk of giving away Akademy t-shirts to supporting members at next year's Akademy?

Thanks @lydia. As I thought.

It should be 25 a quarter or 100 a year minimum. If that's not the case we need to change it.

Question for fundraiser team:

@ngraham says there would be no problem to include a list of members on a page in the Plasma start up wizard 🎉

It would be good to get some feedback from the fundraiser team on some of this. For example goals: is 100 new members a good number? What default donation for a month and year be?

In T16886#298484, @laysrodrigues wrote:

Hey @paulb do you need me to set up the campaign on donorbox?

Hey @paulb do you need me to set up the campaign on donorbox?

We're going to need that page

Started writing the text for the page. This is a late draft:

In T16886#298424, @aronkvh wrote:

Displaying members right on the /donate page (like the Blender or Krita funds do) can also be an incentive

Displaying members right on the /donate page (like the Blender or Krita funds do) can also be an incentive

@lydia and @aronkvh, we can use this campaign.

In T16886#298389, @aronkvh wrote:

Not strictly about this campaign, but giving supporting members a badge on Discuss might also help somewhat - also technically maybe impossible?

Not strictly about this campaign, but giving supporting members a badge on Discuss might also help somewhat - also technically maybe impossible?
Or we could even look at incentivizing donating regularly by sending a printed “Thank You” note with a few stickers after large donations, although I imagine that'd be a logistical n̶i̶g̶h̶t̶m̶a̶r̶e̶ challenge.
The simplest change with no likely actual result could be changing the default selection on Donorbox to 'monthly'.

In T16886#298381, @lydia wrote:

I would very much encourage us to focus on making this a supporting membership drive. We are currently in the process of migrating the supporting memberships from CiviCRM to Donorbox and we need to ramp up supporting memberships there: T16325 We should encourage this over simple donations to build up a reliable base of income for the e.V. instead of one-off support.
We could still have a goal associated with it like signing up X supporting members during the campaign.

Yes, @lydia . This sounds a good moment to do that. I can imagine how we can associate both "support Plasma 6" and "become a "supporting member" (even though we will have to give users the option of one-shot donations somewhere)

I would very much encourage us to focus on making this a supporting membership drive. We are currently in the process of migrating the supporting memberships from CiviCRM to Donorbox and we need to ramp up supporting memberships there: T16325 We should encourage this over simple donations to build up a reliable base of income for the e.V. instead of one-off support.
We could still have a goal associated with it like signing up X supporting members during the campaign.

If help is needed with the page design, come to the vdg and we can help!

Sorry, my bad.
@ognarb would you take a run on this?

I can help with the text, but not the design or code. I don't have any relevant web design skills.

@ngraham can you assist on this task?

Can we close this ticket as done?

Any one is probably fine. Arial is boring and non-controversial so that one gets my vote.

We have these fonts available:

In T16403#294895, @ngraham wrote:

Thanks!

But does the font have to be monospaced? I think a fixed-width font might look better there.

But does the font have to be monospaced? I think a variable-width font might look better there.

Great. Page Updated: https://donorbox.org/kde-become-a-member

That's great. Thanks everyone!

I like it Nate!

All right, how about this?

In T16403#292367, @ngraham wrote:

Ok, let me play with the wording and propose something.

Ok, let me play with the wording and propose something.

I think the latter only becomes a problem if we change the heading per your suggestion. If we talk about why someone should become a supporting member then the point seems ok enough. We want to sell people on it after all ;-)

I think "Why should you become a Supporting Member?" could maybe be rephrased as "What's the difference between becoming a supporting member and making an ordinary recurring donation?" as the text in that section is already the answer to that question, and it's a question that people will have.

Some suggestions for the pictures. Maybe @paulb can suggest more pictures too.

Text for the Camapign page

They have to migrate themselves. But that's outside the scope of this ticket. What we need here is general content for the site that anyone will see encouraging them to sign up as a supporting member.

Can we migrate people that are already supporting members automatically? Or do they have to migrate themselves?

Sure. Let's talk after Akademy's call

Sure. Can we do it in a call right after or before the next Akademy call?

Sure. Can you share more details so I can work on it?

Depends on what anonymous means there. We (as in the board) need to know the name of all members.