revamp about pages

[chadwhitacre]

was: "what's the point of gittip" user stories

A page with a bunch of 'what's the point of gittip' user stories might rock. Current about/FAQ is more 'what' than 'why or 'when'

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[chadwhitacre]

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[cakey]

Right at the top of the about page, or even the homepage needs to be concrete examples of use. Grand vision goes elsewhere. Might be helpful to give explicit examples of people of products/services that have been supported.

• "Help an open source developer build and support the software you use"
• "A direct way for your company to support the community of an open source project that is vital to its operation"
• "Allow a hobby bloggers or tutorial makers to devote more time to producing great content"
• "Show appreciation for a journalist you feel does things the right way"
• "Help provide a financially viable option for an indie artist who produces content you love"
• "Allow authors of comics, newsletters and books to keep releasing content, free and without ads."
  etc

[DamosDaze]

those are some great use cases.

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On May 15, 2013 10:55 AM, "Ben Shaw" [email protected] wrote:

Right at the top of the about page, or even the homepage needs to be
concrete examples of use. Grand vision goes elsewhere. Might be helpful to
give explicit examples of people of products/services that have been
supported.
"Help an open source developer build and support the software you use"
"A direct way for your company to support the community of an open source
project that is vital to its operation"
"Allow a hobby bloggers or tutorial makers to devote more time to
producing great content"
"Show appreciation for a journalist you feel does things the right way"
"Help provide a financially viable option for an indie artist who produces
content you love"
"Allow authors of comics, newsletters and books to keep releasing content,
free and without ads."
etc

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[chadwhitacre]

See also #894 "write some docs for companies looking to give."

[DamosDaze]

Don't forget to include use cases for receiving, or even the same use cases
as above written to reach receivers, not just givers.

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[email protected]

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On May 15, 2013 11:14 AM, "Chad Whitacre" [email protected] wrote:

See also #894 https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/894"write some docs for companies looking to give."

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[cakey]

It depends what the main driver of giving is. Is it people thinking it's a cool idea and giving and then sharing? Or is it people advertising that they are accepting gifts? Seems like very important question to understand.

But regardless:

• "Be able to focus on your hobby full time, to focus working on the things you love, for people that love those things."
• "Give more back to the supporting family who lose much of you to the projects you love to work on"
• "Retain editorial control over your work"
• "Provide an easy convenient way for people to give back to you"

[cakey]

Also, in the interest of being open, It might be worth noting alternative services such as flattr and centup (even kickstarter etc), and state the pros and cons. I personally view an honest comparison by an organisation to their competitors very highly.

[chadwhitacre]

I'm thinking of doubling up the /for/ URL-space for this. We use that for communities. Let's overload some notional "communities" to be landing pages for specific user types.

• /for/companies/ - /about/companies/ #894
• /for/open-source/ - /about/open-source/ #1059
• /for/non-profits/ - /about/non-profits/ #992
• /for/patrons/ - /about/patrons/ #1058
• /for/creators/ - reach out to content creators #737 /about/receiving-money/ #1234
• /for/teams/ - /about/teams/ #1060
• /for/communities/ - /about/communities/ #1061

Each one should have a video addressed to the group in question, as well as HTML and PDF (at least for companies and non-profits) descriptions of Gittip and how to get started using it.

[cakey]

I really like this idea. However, it doesn't solve the problem of first navigating to gittip.com and knowing within 10 seconds what the purpose of the site is and why someone might want to use it.

[chadwhitacre]

This is a meta ticket, and everything's been reticketed. Closing!

[chadwhitacre]

Reopening because meta-tickets are in now.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 Twitter:

Another target demographic for you should be online communities who respect users enough to not display ads.

[chadwhitacre]

Closing in light of our decision to shut down Gratipay.

Thank you all for a great run, and I'm sorry it didn't work out! 😞 💃