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Hello,
We received a report in Debian about a dead link from our website to the
SPI donations page. Seems that that page was renamed, but in a rather
broken way:
- if you really want to rename the page to http://www.spi-inc.org/donate,
then please also change the internal links on the page itself;
the following links near the top of the page are currently broken:
- "Donations of money"
- "Donations of equipment or services"
- "Donations through vendors"
- also please consider providing a compatibility link from the old URL
- but maybe just revert the rename altogether as there's not a huge
difference between "donate" and "donations" anyway
The current section about donating money is also not very consistent:
- there is an extremely short into
- then an address where to send donations (without any real instructions;
do you really expect cash to be sent to that address?)
- this is followed by "click and pledge"; it is absolutely not clear if
this is a service targeted primarily at US donors or if it is also the
method of choice for people from other contries
- then there is a para for Canadian donors
- then there finally is some general info about what will be done with any
donated money, but you have to look really hard before you realize that
this _is_ general information and does not only apply to Canadian donors
- finally there are two very short paras about donations in Europe and
Italy
I would suggest to change the whole section as follows:
- section Donations of money
- intro
- explanation what will happen with the money and how to mark it for
a specific project
- create a subsection "Donations via Click & Pledge"
- create a subsection "Donations by check"
- explain that this is mostly targeted at US and Canadian donors
- create a subsection "Donations through foreign partners"
Please provide direct links to the proposed subsections so that we can
more easily direct potential European donors to the information relevant
for them [1].
While looking for a way to contact you I found another dead link on
http://www.spi-inc.org/contact: "an individual officer or board member"
links to http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/spi-board-of-directors, which
does not exist.
Cheers,
Frans Pop
[1] See this short discussion for reference:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2006/07/msg00065.html
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