Re: [Trad Gnu] Can you help us promote the FSF's membership drive by translating the appeal page?

[Thérèse Godefroy <tgodefroy AT april.org>]

Le 24/06/2024 à 22:16, Miriam Bastian a écrit :
> On 6/24/24 15:42, Therese Godefroy wrote:
> > Le 24/06/2024 à 16:43, Laurent Lyaudet a écrit :
> > [...]
> > > I preferred vous instead of tu whilst translating.
> > > I'm wondering if it could make sense to have an account option to say 
> > > which kind of grammar rule should be used for you or your contacts 
> > > when contacted via the FSF.
> > > Otherwise, you gather only  the endless teenagers, I think ;).
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >        Laurent Lyaudet
> >
> > We have no way of knowing which style (formal "vous" or informal "tu")
> > is most efficient before trying both. Miriam could compare the harvest
> > of French-speaking subscriptions in July 2024 and July 2023. This may
> > give us a hint.
>
> Sure, happy to do that. Note however, that we changed other things in 
> our fundraising strategy as well for this fundraiser, which may affect 
> the result as well. E.g. we have no graphics on the banner, only text 
> this time. And we communicate more clearly that the FSF urgently needs 
> financial support.

Theoretically, we could correct for this bias by comparing with the
English-speaking subscriptions, but the result may not be statistically
significant.