Re: Supporting LilyPond development financially (was: Editing slur markings in LilyPond)

[Janek Warchoł]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:12 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> soundsfromsound <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Do you guys have a PayPal donation link or something where perhaps I
>> could send a little something your way?  I couldn't find anything on
>> the website... :)
>
> Then I need to rethink my strategies.

...and we (Lily team) may need to rethink our strategies as well.
Ben, we have this website about sponsoring Lily development:
http://www.lilypond.org/sponsoring.html
should we make it more visible?  or should we make it more clear how it works?

> Of course, I am only a single developer and so I do
> not "scale": give me ten times the money and I can't actually do more
> than I do currently, but I might be around for quite longer, and others
> will then be able to back off a bit: there are some who are _really_
> supporting me a lot.

Spreading the load of supporting David over more people would
definitely be a good thing.
As for the "scaling" thing: it's not like giving David more money
wouldn't do us good.  Imagine that next month David receives 10 times
the money he usually gets: we'd have David covered for next ~10
months, and we could "hire" another developer with the money that we'd
otherwise give David.

best,
Janek