www.osgeo.org donate button

[jive]

The staging.osgeo.org website is close to ready, one thing we have not added yet is a "donate" button from our original Drupal website.

Ideally we would like donations to have a chance to specify what they are for in the PayPal comment field (for example "map server", "travel grant", etc...). See example instructions ​here.

The give-up.com word press plugin came recommended.

[wildintellect]

I would prefer an html widget, over a plugin for maintainability. I also can't easily find the plugin suggested, please provide a link to the documentation for it.

It may be possible on the Paypal side to customize the form to make it easy for donors pick from a list the intended use of the donation. Though I think a disclaimer needs to be in place, unless the board has specified that paypal donations will always go to exactly what a donor specifies.

[jive]

Ha ha - auto correct messed up my link.

The cone that was recommended to me was ​https://givewp.com/ (it provides a nice email receipt and so on for tax purposes depending on our 501 status).

[jive]

As for donations, we do an annual call out for sponsors listing activities, projects and events that can be sponsored explicitly - see ​http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship for "OSGeo 2017 Sponsorship Opportunities"

[jive]

I will try and get a list of activities, projects and events out of tomorrows board meeting.

Informally:

• any project that has a ​budget request should also be listed as a "donate" option
• travel grant program
• bonn code sprint
• while we are not donating to committees, if a committee has an initiative that can be supported financially we can list it

Foss4g global and regional events are all running their own sponsorship programs.

[jive]

See ​https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/issues/43

[jive]

strk suggests the following was suggested as an alternative to a proprietary plugin:

​https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-paypal/

[jive]

It is making it hard to run code sprints not having a PayPal button!

• The wp-paypal button while free is not suitable (it is too complicated with a shopping cart and so on)
• The ​https://givewp.com/ was more focused on our use case, code available on GitHub using a GPL license (​https://github.com/impress-org/give). And once again I think we can pay for this if it enables our teams and supports an open source company produce plugins like this

Other options:

• I noticed the TGP was able to make a button using a call out action: ​https://www.osgeo.org/initiatives/foss4g-travel-grant-program/
• Old website had one donate button, and each project had manual instructions asking sponsors to fill in a "special instructions" field

[jive]

Increasing the importance of this issue as it is effecting recently fundraising efforts.

[darkblueb]

​https://www.osgeo.org/

where is the Donate button ?

[jive]

Can this be considered resolved now?