Note: this could be done with Paypal and/or Flattr. 

Flattr seems like an interesting concept for the "regular fans" type of donations: it lowers the barrier of entry and the user doesn't feel "pain" by spending money with micropayments; it encourages regular flattr'ing. There are other systems like Kickstart or whatnot, but I haven't investigated them. For some reason, seems like Flattr just popped out of thin air and started appearing in various projects (and you can see it from time to time on Planet GNOME).

On another hand, some users want to make bigger donations, or control the exact amount, and for those Paypal (or some other system) may be better. Therefore, we could have both systems in place.

Anyway, those are implementation details. The hardest part is figuring out what to do with those gigantic piles of cash that will undoubtedly fall upon the project.

Don't use Flatr, use Google Checkout and PayPal =]

What about having regular contributers(via wiki page) creating there own method of donation and people can donate to whoever they choose. This solves the "who handles the money?" problem 

Also Amazon wishlist is a versatile method.

Brian

So, after the experience from the 2014 fundraiser and the availability of our all-in-one distro-agnostic bundles, I think we can improve in a number of ways to encourage people to donate:

- Rework the Pitivi.org download page to be conceptually similar to LibreOffice: autodetect the system and architecture, then when you click to download it points you to a thanks+donate page where the file download starts automatically; in the background, the page offers the user to make donations (contributions to the fundraising campaign if any, or just normal donations) for preset amounts (and letting the user enter custom amounts too). The idea is to never force donations (that's disrespectful and only leads to trouble), just leave that page open after the download.

- In the application itself, in the welcome dialog, if running from inside a bundle (instead of a Linux distro's package), having a prominent infobar that informs users that 1) this is Free and Open Source software  2) have you considered donating? Click here for more info.   The reason why I'm thinking about this approach is that if we ever ship on other platforms, we will a mechanism to counter the cases where unscrupulous people would take it the app, sell it on eBay and leave us to deal with a bunch of angry users who think we're responsible for that and thought they were getting FCP for cheap (don't laugh, it happens all the time with Audacity and Blender).

This bug has been migrated to https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T2623.

Please use the Phabricator interface to report further bugs by creating a task and associating it with Project: Pitivi.

See http://wiki.pitivi.org/wiki/Bug_reporting for details.