From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 20 02:21:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FA216A419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray.stokely@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E2613C447 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray.stokely@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so1659255rvb for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:21:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=bkwRrTcMud4OBv2p6LlllPvncwRRmD18yrs7z6/A63M=; b=Ik8du646g1O/xbzmYGLS5r8vkXbP4Ri8zI68jGQWuSUJild0JuR1OhplwPpMyH2oJw8QUi3YpoUR+B7CRHohGaTzK4JaaodLJqwaosZ7j2Olqcs5Mp0eZ4ZTopXvcRRTYpqLMNMexuUswjFulk6SA3+JyEhpIaZwee57jJ1JyGU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OLNedQK2LEy9HGaAEd3yEYv/irjmzSwElgJ79RgQnx3Zy992XVxftcoyDHw2d4PRyf3vXe+4fiE6KZO3Gq6N4ogLHFgqlAwBCTaPNhqmo5iswxtyXBQoCuzFnuN8yjKy9GY7Jwo6UqJNvXyP2xmxucJxPsVK1t7LyFgyzkdPpOU= Received: by 10.141.87.13 with SMTP id p13mr2442278rvl.1195525282081; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.193.6 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:21:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <474078f80711191821i681955b7i29ba1c4b454222df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:21:22 -0800 From: "Murray Stokely" To: "Deb Goodkin" In-Reply-To: <47423C9E.3090804@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071119222308.GB99904@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <474078f80711191545s24e37234j930387517a986d52@mail.gmail.com> <47423C9E.3090804@freebsd.org> Cc: board@freebsdfoundation.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: front page idea X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:21:22 -0000 On 11/19/07, Deb Goodkin wrote: > Here's some history for the request. We have a marketing team helping > us, from a company who has benefited from using FreeBSD. They have > offered their services to help us better market ourselves for > fundraising purposes. They looked at the project's website and said it > was confusing on how to donate. They also said there was no correlation > between donating and clicking on the foundation button. A person looking > to donate might not know what the foundation link means. Yes, I agree. > They had suggested to either add a "Donate to the Foundation" or "Keep > FreeBSD Free" button in a prominent spot on each page of the project. > That would also create a connection between the two entities. > Especially, since our whole mission is to support the project. We are > going to add a section on our website that answers the questions: I think we could add a button with one of those two slogans to the bottom of all the second level pages. To the right of the copyright information, right-justified. I think that would look nice and provide additional links and fundraising visibility. Do you have any such graphical buttons created? > Why is FreeBSD free? or > Why do we want to keep FreeBSD free? > Why is this so important? > What happens if FreeBSD isn't free? > What happens if it goes away? > > This will then tie into why donate to the foundation. We would love to > have both, the donate button and the foundation link. But, if we had a > choice of only one, I'd choose a donate button that linked to our donate > page. On second look there are actually already two links on the front page to the foundation. One in the title nav bar and one in the footer for the copyright information. Should we change the title navbar to say "Donate" instead of "Foundation" on both the front and second level pages? Or should we just leave it as "Foundation" but also add a "Donate to the Foundation" button on all the second level pages in the footer, right-justified as described above? There could also be additional places to add links ot the foundation, such as in the Newbies page linked from the main page. We could add some information there about how donations help development. I also think a newsflash entry whenever you reach a fundraising goal or set a fundraising goal would be appropriate. You can just send text to freebsd-www@ or freebsd-doc@ or one of us personally to add the notice. - Murray