From e0860bff84d77e7c27a0ba193c93dc1feada550f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raoul Snyman Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:33:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a donation blog post and expand the page --- blog/contributing-to-openlp-financially.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ pages/donate.rst | 14 ++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 blog/contributing-to-openlp-financially.rst diff --git a/blog/contributing-to-openlp-financially.rst b/blog/contributing-to-openlp-financially.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..965d116 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/contributing-to-openlp-financially.rst @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +.. title: Contributing to OpenLP Financially +.. slug: 2015/11/15/contributing-to-openlp-financially +.. date: 2015-11-15 12:00:00 UTC +.. tags: +.. category: +.. link: +.. description: +.. type: text + +Over the years people have asked us about financial contributions and donations to the project. OpenLP, like many other open source projects, is largely funded by the developers, or donated resources. Until recently, this has meant that donations have been unnecessary. + +After some upheaval in the open source community recently, the developers decided to start building some server infrastructure around the project. This means that OpenLP is no diff --git a/pages/donate.rst b/pages/donate.rst index 5e72b1a..79089de 100644 --- a/pages/donate.rst +++ b/pages/donate.rst @@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ entirely funded by the personal funds of the developers. We have a number of fixed costs, like server hosting, domain names, and the like. If you'd like to help us out, please consider donating to our cause. -There are two types of donation: +There are three types of donations: 1. Once-off donations 2. Regular donations +3. Buy swag Once-off Donations ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -34,7 +35,15 @@ Set up your donation by clicking on the badge below. -Monthly Costs +Buy Swag +^^^^^^^^ +One other way you can help us financially is by buying stuff from our online +store. There are T-shirts, cups, hats, USB drives, and other things for sale, +and a small percentage of the proceeds goes toward OpenLP. + +The store has been set up on Zazzle: `OpenLP Merchandise Store`_ + +Regular Costs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Here's a breakdown of our regular costs: @@ -53,6 +62,7 @@ will need roughly $12.50 per week. .. _contact form: /#support .. _Gratipay: https://gratipay.com/ +.. _OpenLP Merchandise Store: https://www.zazzle.com/openlp .. _VPS from Linode.com: https://www.linode.com/pricing .. _backup service: https://www.linode.com/backups .. _Gandi.net's pricing page: https://www.gandi.net/domain/price/info