Tails

#4 Updated by Anonymous 2014-07-11 10:04:36

We actually talked about this at the contributor meeting in may: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/meetings/201405/#index1h1

#5 Updated by BitingBird 2014-07-19 21:14:11

A mention with a link in the upgrader seems a good idea, and in the upgrade documentation too.

#6 Updated by sajolida 2014-10-12 02:11:25

See also to ticket on the Tor tracker about making donations part of the download process:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11569

#7 Updated by hyas 2014-10-12 13:13:13

Advertising our contribute section within the upgrader won’t work for the following reasons:
First, there is an implementation problem with that: it’s a pain to open links from the upgrader, due to the fact that it is running as a different user. People have to manually select and copy the URL, and paste it into the browser.
Second, if the upgrader downloads too fast, they might see the network connection shut down (for applying the upgrade) while they’re reading the donate page or donating.
Third, the upgrader recommends to stop all apps and this would in contradiction.

#8 Updated by hyas 2014-10-12 13:41:37

Idea to investigate: when the user creates a persistent folder, we could send a notification when the operation is finished and before the reboot.

#9 Updated by sajolida 2014-10-13 06:33:06

I would solve the second and third issue by proposing to donate before
starting the upgrade process.

In the screen
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/upgrade/upgrader.png, we could
have a button “Donate and upgrade” and another one “Upgrade for free”.
If the use chooses “Donate and upgrade” she is taken through the donate
process first, and then only through the upgrade process.

Still, we are left with the first issue. But I’m sure that we can
workaround this :)

#12 Updated by BitingBird 2015-04-10 20:47:38

Not sure if this is still relevant… we do get quite some donations AFAIK. The message on the homepage was good for that, and seems like a better place to do so actually.

#13 Updated by sajolida 2015-04-14 16:49:14

I think it’s still relevant to bother about donations people that use Tails the most. That’s a common strategy (see Ubuntu for example) to ask for donation at installation time. Our amount of donated money is not that high compared to our annual budget, and I think that the more the better.

#17 Updated by intrigeri 2017-02-14 15:11:40

> I’m closing it as it’s now pretty clear on the website?

Yes and no. IMO the way it’s been done during the 2016 donation campaign was an OK’ish workaround to the lack of something like what’s been discussed on this ticket. I still think we could do better (e.g. outside of donation campaigns) for existing users, but I won’t insist, and likely won’t work on it much, so I don’t dare reopening this ticket myself.