[Foundation-l] Regarding the Fundraising Banner

[Bence Damokos]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Talking about the banner and currencies, I am not quite sure why some
> > languages are in dollars and others are in euros. It might make sense in
> > Deutsch (mostly Deutsch people will donate and of course, they will
> > donate in euros preferably), but not really in French (canadian, french,
> > swiss, algerian etc... all use different currencies). I expect the
> > Foundation receive quite a lot from canadians... who will find odd to
> > find an american organization propose a donation in euros.
> >
> > But beyond this, I noted an oddity.
> > The banner is currently suggesting donating 30 dollars, 75 dollars or
> > 100 dollars per default. Thank god, people can choose to give other
> > values and in particular less. Given that the average donation in the
> > past was 30 dollars, suggesting 30 dollars as minimal value is... bold.
> >
> > But other languages, such as german, also propose 30/75/100, but not in
> > dollars... in euros. Unfortunately, a 30 dollars today is below 20 euros
> > today. So, a minimal gift of 30 euros is more about 40-45 dollars.
> > I do not think it is a good idea to suggest different values according
> > to languages. Somehow, it strikes me as "unequal". I think we should
> > stick to dollars in any cases. Imho.
> >
> > (I am not going to scream about this, I just find it is not a good idea).
> >
> > Ant
> >
> >
>
> I rely on the translators and the people who *live* in the country to
> figure out what amount to give.  For example, for Bulgarian we were
> definitely not going to do 15 Euros... that's a *lot* of money for
> people in Bulgaria (where most of the Bulgarians are).
>
> There really isn't a reason to complain about the currency, there's a
> drop-down where you can select the one that you prefer. :-)  We had to
> pick the one that fit best with the speakers of the language *and*
> that was offered by PayPal (if there was no available option, we'd use
> the default: USD).  Within those parameters, I think we are doing a
> pretty good job.
>
> If you have any comments about a specific language and find that it
> would be way too much to ask of the local people (not something like
> "they are asking more of Europeans!" because I agree with Sebmol as he
> said earlier), please drop me a line. ;-)
>
> --
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023

I agree with Casey, that if possible, the donation amounts should be
tailored to the people being reached by the given language.


What I would like as well, if possible,  is support from the technical side
to have detailed as detailed statistics about the different currencies as
there are for US dollar (e.g. the percentage of donations matching exactly
one of the three options on the donation page), and also the ability to look
at the data already presented (total amount, average, min, max in a given
currency) to be available denominated in the original currency as well. I am
not sure, but having this extra data might confirm if the correct default
amounts were guessed correctly, or if the least chosen amount should be
substituted for a different one.

Best regards,
Bence Damokos


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