Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Include the FSF fundraising banner in GNU Savannah!.

[John Sullivan]

Ineiev <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:06:39PM -0500, Assaf Gordon wrote:
>> However it's important to remember that GNU Savannah is maintained
>> by volunteers, and not too many of them.
>> The FSF (and the "http://www.gnu.org";) is maintained by the FSF,
>> which has a dedicated full-time web developer and several interns.
>> GNU Savannah does not have these resources.
>
> A minor correction from a GNU webmaster: www.gnu.org is mostly
> maintained by volunteers (Apache configuration is still FSF staff's
> responsibility).
>

FSF staff also contribute via the hardware, data recovery, emergency
support, and a few other things. And we rarely have several interns --
currently we have none. gnu.org, like Savannah, is primarily maintained
by volunteers. But I agree with the point, which is that we don't want
to overburden the Savannah team. A few thoughts:

1) The resources raised will help Savannah, so it's worth it to make
some time for it if we can.

2) The iframe banner may be ideal to at least try (I think that'd just
be an HTML change to the site template?), because if it works right,
Savannah hackers would not need to do anything again until it's time to
take it down (end of January).

3) If there are any problems, we could just switch to a plain text
banner using the text from fsf.org with a link to donate, without the
dynamic elements like the progress bar.

4) If it's hard to do something site-wide, then even something at the
top of the front page would help.

We'd appreciate whatever can be done, and it'll help Savannah too! We
haven't seen the full benefits yet, but our fundraiser last year enabled
us to add the Web Developer position, which boosted the staff time
devoted to the FSF and GNU infrastructure by 20%. We haven't seen the
full benefits because we had one sysadmin vacancy for a good chunk of
this year, but now we are at full staffing in that area again, and I
expect Savannah-related issues and improvements to be addressed more
quickly.

Thanks!

-john

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