[Finance] RE: [DesDev] Donation Wall

[Martin Paul Burns]

                      "Jeff Howden"                                                                                                       
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> i simply made it a point to challenge the current offering because i know
> how things work around here.  we put something up to get it up quickly
and
> then when someone else comes along with what they think is a better
> solution, the new solution gets lost in the din of debate.

I think we can get round that in 3 ways:
1) Agree that this is temporary
2) Agree how we'd recognise its replacement (global login sounds sensible)
3) Agree that this should be part of the larger redesign

[side-issue - if you want to come back on it, start a separate thread
please - I think maybe a global login might be a sensible thing to do with
the redesign]

>i'm still fuzzy on who will actually be *using* this donation wall.

1) Tracking and reporting for Finance
2) Donor recognition for Marketing

There's basically 3 high level use cases:
1) Treasurer (or rather 'user with treasurer role') adds new donations,
   which can be in cash, in kind (as a monetary equivalent), by members or
not.
2) Site visitors are pointed from the 'support evolt' article on weo
   to see who else has given and average amounts.
3) Total amount is made available as an XML feed to other *eo sites

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> > sure, but it's not accuracy of the numbers that
> > matters,
>
> Assuming that the 'not' was a typo, it remains a problem
> for leo, deo & beo.
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>yes, agreed.  and the same solution that weo uses can be used there as
well.

Not at present, while weo uses CF, deo and beo use PHP and leo uses
something Python/Mailman-ish (but has PHP, Perl, ASP and SSIs available).
Although an XML feed may solve this.

Cheers
Martin