Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I was contacted by Holmes Wilson from the Free Software Foundation who asked if we would be wiling to put a membership widget on the front page of Drupal.org: https://my.fsf.org/associate/widget/. I also know that OSU OSL is doing a "$6 for 6 years" campaign atm: http://osuosl.org/give6 though they haven't filed such a request.
I told Holmes that I would forward along the request, but I think this is something we probably have to develop a policy around:
1. Are we willing to promote donations to other non-profit organizations that are either directly or tangentially related to the Drupal software itself (bearing in mind that right now we don't even promote our own non-profit organization on the front page...)?
2. If so, what is the criteria for which orgs are/are not accepted? OSL runs our hosting infrastructure, FSF created and does activism work around the GPL (Drupal's license).
3. Where physically on the website can we put this stuff, if we choose to do so?
Comments
Comment #1
gdemetI support having a page on the site (possibly in the About section?) dedicated to supporting groups with which the Drupal project is directly affiliated, like the Drupal Assocation, FSF, and OSL.
I'm not quite as keen on placing donation widgets on the home page, except possibly for ones advertising specific fundraising campaigns that directly benefit the Drupal project. My concern here is that if we always had some kind of fundraising widget on the site, folks would get used it, and it would reduce the impact of any future fundraising the Drupal Association needed to do.
Comment #2
lizzjoyI'm setting this issue to closed due to a long time of inactivity. I will add that I see a link on the About page for https://drupal.org/contribute/donations which mentions OSL and a link to donate to OSL. So that is something!