Dears,

some while ago, on planetKDE there was a post informing about new way how to support KDE. By Supporting our beloved KDE financially as a member. Very nice website was built for this registration & payment. I was excited about it and said to myself i will join, as i like the idea of how it was put together. I thought (hoped) this will bring many more people (money) in, because the presentation of these ideas is vital.
I think people would rather join (and donate money by becoming a member) on that beautiful eye-candy website, then the poor donations page. Also the feeling of "becoming a member" plays its role and is a much bigger motivation for most people than just mentioning the name on some imho ugly looking donations page.

I ask - where is the link to that website?
I ask - why, why I didn't find a link to that webpage from http://www.kde.org?
With current situation, it is like the project never even existed. The visitor of http://www.kde.org can not simply find out about it! I mean - for me it is like that - i am seriously not able to find it anywhere! Did you really take it down?
It is not even on donations page!

This should be on some visible spot, on main page somewhere, informing people they can join in and support freedom.

Seriously, why have you bothered to make such a beautiful website if there is no way to access it without having it saved in bookmarks before. And that completely misses the point!
And especially now when you've released 4.5! This is missed opportunity as the buzz about KDE is the biggest on these release days I believe. That means more people on web-page and that means higher chance of someone actually joining in. Main thing is they would know they are welcome to join and support free/libre desktop environment! To let them know, to clarify them, that KDE is a FREE COMMUNITY PROJECT, which can not exist without community.

Also btw, how to display older post on PlanetKDE? I hope you archive it somewhere... In all cases it should be possible to read older post from planet! How can i read blog posts say from a week ago? PlanetKDE is the biggest source of KDE related information and to display each blog post just for ~ 2 days is a sin No seriously, this is important. Many information - which are only on the planet - just get burried and lost! In fact it seems they dont even get burried, they seem to simply get deleted. Like this "join kde as supporting member" project, for example. Nobody will search on all the blogs of all the people. That's why the planet is should be here. That should be it's function. Not to display it just for ~2 days (certain number of posts), but provide access to everything which was ever agregated on the planetKDE.

Some nice community based website providing the members with various features would be great and would certainly motivate others joining in. Simply because the community would generate a buzz by itself. Somehow connecting this with opendesktop.org would be very interesting.
I don't mean to give paying members something more than normal members - by all means no - just maybe some star to their user-name or something like that - to show he has donated - which would be a click-able link which would in turn advertise itself. That is: supporting freedom.
This could also be done on KDE forums easily. Simply displaying the "paying member" status (some nice icon, whatever, clickable with link to "join us" webpage) near the name of the poster.

It would be amazing for whole KDE if it had a bigger income and could start paying developers for certain task, or even full-time, wouldn't that be great? For some core/kwin/important tasks that would be a great drive forward IMO!. Just look how the KRITA team was successful by creating a buzz(by informing people) so that people donated and they could employ Lukas Tvrdy for several months of full-time work! That's awesome and krita benefits a lot by this! Free computing world would be in new heights after few years, if this was deployed by whole KDE...
We have to inform people that it is the people like them who can make a difference. And for that - the information must be clearly visible.

We have to start somewhere, and that website/project of becoming supporting paying members was a good start.
And i am disappointed it is buried like this!

TL;DR promote joining KDEev and supporting KDE financially by -at least- displaying this clearly on the webpage. Off course with the "WHY" arguments. Bassically - display link on kde.org to "Join KDEev" webpage/project which was already created, but is not visible at all.

Thank you for reading. Have a beautiful day/life.

I ask - where is the link to that website?
I ask - why, why I didn't find a link to that webpage from http://www.kde.org?
With current situation, it is like the project never even existed. The visitor of http://www.kde.org can not simply find out about it! I mean - for me it is like that - i am seriously not able to find it anywhere! Did you really take it down?
It is not even on donations page!

It must have been slipped through. Added now to the menu.

Awesome, glad it's been unintentional. Thank you.

But I think it is still not enough. There should be some banner or something to make it clear that "Your financial support helps to Make things happen" without need to go to that web-page first.

So now for the other points, like planetkde, funding of development...

But yes, i am aware that funding of development is a topic for itself. I hope we will achieve that stage one day. It should be rather sooner. But for this, the "marketing" so to speak, the information flow is vital. One menu link will not help for that. That's why i say,lets start by creating member community of some sorts, promoting it via the forums / user profiles... Well i could speak long time so I will cut it now

Thank you