Add prominent donate/support financially information

[ibex-are-goats]

Context: I went to mumble.info to donate $$ to the project, but I couldn't find the donate button. First I looked down the center column, then down the right column, then down the left column. Then I did a ctrl+f to search for "donate" on the page. Clearly my eyes had missed the link in the left column. Perhaps because is undifferentiated from the rest of the content on the page!

Feature:

Place a "Donate" link with large text at the top center of the mumble.info home page. Include a "Paypal" icon so people immediately associate this link with the concept of payment. A

lternative position: duplicate the "Download mumble" column with a "Donate to mumble" column above, so users must browse past the donate section every time they download.

This section could include information about who receives the donations and what they are spent on. Project productivity statistics could be included here as well, such as: active developers, bugs fixed recently, release cadence, and importantly, SERVER COSTS! :)

[Kissaki]

This section could include information about who receives the donations and what they are spent on.

Well… I’m not sure how much I should say here.

In our current state, I don’t think we even want to make it more prominent. Of course that could change in the future. The infrastructure is sponsored, in part by (some of) our team members. So we don’t really have running, outstanding costs at the moment.

Personally, I do think we should improve this, provide effort compensation and make it more prominent. But we will have to discuss/manage that internally.

[haasn]

I personally strongly oppose to the idea of plastering donation nag messages all over the home page and download page, instead it should be an entry in the “Get Involved” section of the website.

[toby63]

Whats the status of this?

Should it be included somewhere, for example here #123 or there #128 ?

[Krzmbrzl]

I like the idea of adding that to the Contribute page (and maybe in addition into the footer)

[toby63]

I think a seperate "Donate" page would be good.
And as a good compromise regarding the placement on the website, it could be in the footer, so it is not too "annoying", but still visible.

Reasons for this:

• I think donation is something different than contributing, still the donate page could be linked on the contribution page.
• We could describe donations (and what they are used for) in more detail on a seperate page

[Krzmbrzl]

I think donation is something different than contributing, still the donate page could be linked on the contribution page.

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