🚧 Donate view

* Added donate TemplateView and pulled in copy from existing site * Pulled paypal donate forms from existing site * Added license.txt file to static which is linked to from the copy * Added links to the donate view Issue: #34
2026-01-19 04:42:17 +00:00 · 2022-11-30 10:14:04 -05:00
parent b9c8513f6e
commit d9424f104d
6 changed files with 159 additions and 2326 deletions
--- a/config/urls.py
+++ b/config/urls.py
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ urlpatterns = [
    path("500", InternalServerErrorView.as_view(), name="internal_server_error"),
    path("health/", include("health_check.urls")),
    path("forum/", include(machina_urls)),
+    path(
+        "donate/",
+        TemplateView.as_view(template_name="donate/donate.html"),
+        name="donate",
+    ),
    path(
        "libraries-by-letter/<str:letter>/",
        LibraryByLetter.as_view(),
--- a/static/css/styles.css
+++ b/static/css/styles.css
--- a/static/license.txt
+++ b/static/license.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
+obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
+this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
+execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
+Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
+do so, all subject to the following:
+
+The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
+the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
+must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
+all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
+works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
+a source language processor.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
+SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
+FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
+ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
--- a/templates/donate/_donate-button.html
+++ b/templates/donate/_donate-button.html
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<div class="my-11">
+  <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top" style="width: 250px; margin-left:auto; margin-right: auto;">
+    <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
+    <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="B8N63QM4ZDN74">
+    <input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal The safer, easier way to pay online!" style="display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">
+
+    <p>
+      <button type="submit" style="width:250px; height:64px; white-space:normal;">
+        Donate once-off, or a recurring donation with Paypal or Credit/Debit card
+      </button>
+    </p>
+  </form>
+</div>
--- a/templates/donate/donate.html
+++ b/templates/donate/donate.html
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+{% extends "base.html" %}
+
+{% load static %}
+
+{% block content %}
+  <div class="py-0 md:py-6 mb-3 px-3 md:px-0">
+    <div class="md:w-full py-16">
+      <h1 class="text-4xl">Donate to the Boost C++ Libraries</h1>
+
+      <p>
+        According to <a class="text-orange" href="https://www.openhub.net/p/boost/estimated_cost">OpenHub's
+        Boost page</a>, as of August 2014 there are 14.2 million lines
+        of code in Boost. Given the high quality of coding needed to
+        pass Boost's community review process, and the extensive unit
+        and functional testing required, a cost of US$20/line is not
+        unreasonable. By that metric, the Boost C++ Libraries would
+        cost US$284 million to rewrite from scratch in a commercial
+        organization.
+      </p>
+
+      <p>
+        If you want more of the same, please donate generously. We
+        will use donations to fund Boost infrastructure, help finance
+        <a class="text-orange" href="http://cppnow.org/">the annual C++ Now conference</a>,
+        and help fund students to work on Boost code without having to
+        worry as much about finding the time or money to do so. You
+        should be aware we may also use donations for any other purpose
+        the Boost steering committee feels appropriate.
+      </p>
+
+      {% include "donate/_donate-button.html" %}
+
+      <h3>Why ask for donations for the first time in fifteen years?</h3>
+
+      <p>
+        Boost was not generated, for the most part, by any
+        commercial organization. It is available in the public interest
+        as one of the purest forms of open source: its license,
+        <a class="text-orange" href="{% static 'license.txt' %}">the Boost
+        Software License</a>, is highly permissive and allows
+        unrestricted commercial use. Most of the code was written,
+        documented, and tested in the spare and family time of some of
+        the very best C++ engineers in the world, many of whom are also
+        involved in the ISO C++ standardization process. Many of the
+        additions to the C++ 11 standard library started life in the
+        Boost libraries, and so will many of the additions and changes
+        to the next C++ standard library.
+      </p>
+
+      <p>
+        Yet, for its first fifteen years, Boost has never asked for
+        donations of money from its users. So why begin now?
+      </p>
+
+      <p>
+        As Boost grows, more time and resources are being spent on
+        dealing with the size and complexity of Boost, especially as
+        libraries are transitioned to make full use of the new language
+        features in C++ 11/14. If you wish to support those efforts to
+        bring more Boost libraries into first tier support for the
+        latest generation of C++, please donate generously.
+      </p>
+
+      {% include "donate/_donate-button.html" %}
+
+      <h3>Why you should donate with a recurring monthly donation</h3>
+
+      <p>
+        Boost has participated in <a class="text-orange" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code">Google's
+        Summer of Code</a> since 2007. This is an annual student open-source programming stipend program lasting three months during
+        which experienced Boost developers mentor students who work on
+        improving Boost libraries, usually in all the boring, thankless
+        stuff none of us like to do. The problem with the three month
+        duration is that the student is only just getting familiar
+        enough with the Boost libraries to ramp up their
+        productivity and rate of output when the program ends. This
+        leads to these outcomes:
+      </p>
+
+      <ul>
+        <li>We don't reap the full rewards of what we should given
+        the substantial investment in mentoring our developers invest
+        into students each year.</li>
+
+        <li>The student is just getting into the Boost libraries when
+        they need to return to concentrating on their studies, and
+        often back to the part time work needed to finance the high
+        expense of university study nowadays.</li>
+
+        <li>Students, when they graduate, get pulled into the
+        development of proprietary rather than open-source software,
+        or they end up gravitating to one of the many open source
+        projects much better at running a student-to-developer
+        pipeline than Boost historically has been.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>
+        Whatever the case, Boost is not benefiting as it should from
+        enthusiastic students with great ideas about where C++ should
+        go next, and we hope that <em>you</em> can help us change
+        that.
+      </p>
+
+      <p>
+        So, if you or your company or organization has benefited
+        from the Boost C++ Libraries, or you would like to assist
+        promising young C++ engineers develop their talents to the
+        full, please strongly consider making a regular monthly
+        donation to Boost! Please donate generously. Thank you in
+        advance!
+      </p>
+
+    </div>
+  </div>
+{% endblock %}
--- a/templates/includes/_header.html
+++ b/templates/includes/_header.html
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@

              <a href="{% url "news" %}" class="font-medium text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-900">News</a>

-              <a href="#" class="font-medium text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-900">Donate</a>
+              <a href="{% url 'donate' %}" class="font-medium text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-900">Donate</a>
            </div>
          </div>
        </nav>
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@

              <a href="{% url "news" %}" class="block px-3 py-2 text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-900">News</a>

-              <a href="#" class="block px-3 py-2 text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-900">Donate</a>
+              <a href="{% url 'donate' %}" class="block px-3 py-2 text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-900">Donate</a>
            </div>
            <div class="px-2 pt-2 pb-3 absolute bottom-10 left-0 text-sm">
              <a href="{% url 'boost-about' %}" class="block px-3 py-2 text-thin text-gray-700 hover:text-gray-900 hover:bg-gray-50">About</a>