Jakub Steiner ⭐

Donate less, please!

https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/06/26/donate-less/

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Donate Less

We have a new donation page. But before you go there, I would like to impress upon you this idea: We would vastly prefer you donate $10/mo for one year ($120 total) than $200 in one lump sum. That's counter-intuitive, so let me explain. First of all, cash flow matters just as much to a...

The Everyone Environment
Jun 26 at 9:53amTuba
Show threadThonkDifferentJun 26

@jimmac @deobald
> Every individual who becomes a Friends of GNOME gets the option to display their name on this page and subscribe to our quarterly newsletter

For those of us who already donate monthly, will we get this option as well or do we have to reconfirm the donation

Show threadSteven DeobaldJun 26

@thonkdifferent @jimmac thanks for checking!

how are you donating monthly, at the moment?

we have a task open to pull in paypal subscribers. but if you are using another payment gateway from some legacy campaign, it would be great to know so we can handle it!

Show threadThonkDifferentJun 27

@deobald

I am currently donating by card. I used the original donation flow from the old page. There was no GNOME fundraising campaign at that moment, but the KDE folks were doing their Christmas campaign when I started donating.

Show threadSteven DeobaldJun 27

@thonkdifferent if you can please email me your full name and email address associated with your donation, i'll look into it:

steven@gnome.org

thanks so much!

Show threadThonkDifferentJun 27
@deobald done! You may check your inbox :D
Show threadJan 💤Jun 26
@jimmac pssst, GNOME isn’t the default for openSUSE. We don’t have a default, but let the user choose on first install