[Marketing] Donate button

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

Just following up on this. I can work on the button but need to know
if the text on the original PNG is the final copy.

Thanks,

Christian

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
<christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I agree we should have a larger donate button. Happy to mock that up.
> Sean, do you have any copy I could use? I imagine it would be pretty
> minimal...
>
> As far as using git, I agree that would make a lot of sense! I say
> let's do it. Bernie, would you mind putting together some basic
> instructions for me so I can continue to update the site?
>
> Finally, I am definitely excited to hear about the site assessment and
> to take on a long overdue design/content update! Let's talk once the
> findings come in.
>
> Happy holidays everyone!
>
>
> Christian
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone From: Sean DALY
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 1:17 PM
> To: Sugar Labs Marketing; anything
> Cc: Bernie Innocenti; Matt Lee; Christian Marc Schmidt; Walter Bender;
> Gary C Martin
> Subject: Re: [Marketing] Donate button
> I agree that donations should be encouraged... sometimes
> "microdonations" turn into "macrodonations" as OLPC France happily
> discovered last week.
>
> However, the button will need some work to be "Sugarized" with our
> font (VAG Rounded Light) and colors.
>
> I think a small banner format like the 120x90 ad we did on FOSS sites
> a year ago through Ad Bard would work better (attached)
>
> Christian, have you had a chance to consider Bernie's proposal
> concerning the static intro site and git? On topic as well, the MIT
> Sloan students are winding up their marketing study in a couple of
> weeks and they have given an initial briefing concerning our
> website(s). Which I missed unfortunately, but John Tierney rebriefed
> me. We may want to start thinking about a revamp in that context.
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 12:09 -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>>> > On 12/30/2010 12:00 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>> > > Matt from the Free Software Foundation noted that we don't even have a
>>> > > donate button on our web site. He designed a banner for the large
>>> > > black
>>> > > empty area on the front page.
>>> > >
>>> > > Unless someone is opposed, I could do the work to put it online, and
>>> > > also convert the website to a git repository, as was discussed some
>>> > > time
>>> > > ago.
>>> >
>>> > +1 to both. Is the banner available as a SVG?
>>>
>>> Matt, is it?
>>>
>>
>> We have a small donate link on the  homepage and on the wiki... but a nice
>> big one would be good. I'd opt for something using the standard Sugar
>> font/schema.
>>
>> -walter
>>>
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