Re: Issue #13 - Unclear section "Donations made through vendors"

From: Philippe Cloutier <chealer(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issue #13 - Unclear section "Donations made through vendors"
Date: 2018-07-02 21:35:32
Message-ID: be1e527f-a85c-6b08-0697-3d4b3d4a86a8@gmail.com
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On 2018-07-02 15:26, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Philippe Cloutier <chealer(at)gmail(dot)com> [2018-07-02 11:59]:
>> I forgot one thing: perhaps specific vendors were not listed because
>> we did not want to give them undue exposure. If that is the case, I
>> suggest creating another page (a "subpage") to list them.
> That's probably something projects should do themselves. I don't
> think it makes sense for SPI to maintain such a list.

Our Donations page contains:
> Several vendors (of CDs, Books etc.) allow their customers to make donations to SPI or an affiliated project when ordering materials.

My comment was only about donations to SPI itself.

>
> For example, Debian's CD vendor page indicates whether vendors allow
> customers to donate to Debian: https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/
>

I guess extending my suggestion to associated projects would involve linking to project-specific vendor donation pages. But note that the topic of that Debian page is how to obtain installation media, donating is a secondary topic. I do not know if Debian has a page which has donating through vendors as main topic.

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Philippe Cloutier
http://www.philippecloutier.com

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