Re: Supporting my work on LilyPond financially

[Christ van Willegen]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:11 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Christ van Willegen <address@hidden> writes:
>> If everyone on the mailing list chipped in 1 euro a month, that would
>> get David out of financial problems, probably for the rest of his
>> life...
>
> Just for the record, I am not having "financial problems":

That was part of my over-exageration. I was not saying that you had
financial problems, but the message was meant to be: "If we all
chipped in 1 euro per month, David could probably work on Lilypon the
rest of his life."

>
>> A slight over-exageration, perhaps, but not far off I think.
>
> I think you are overestimating the readership here.  I recently checked
> the Cc list for my reports (so far nobody asked for getting removed from
> that list) which consists of all people who have contributed so far.
> I was actually surprised that it was about 80 entries long.  True,
> containing quite a few entries for one-time contributions or short
> periods of time, but nevertheless the number does not appear negligible
> compared to the active readership here.

Any idea how much 'active readership' would be?

> The thought "if everybody contributed just a little" seems compelling.

Yes. It shares the burden of improving Lilypond.

> It's actually my experience that those who pledge to contribute a
> monthly payment less than €10 tend to stop after few months, probably
> because they think it does not make a difference.

Too bad :-(

> So unless one manages to get along on lots of small one-time payments
> (implying an even larger audience one has to reach), I don't see how
> I can get around tapping those who are enthusiastic about LilyPond, are
> "invested" in it, more than those who care only a little.

If you look at Kickstarter, it's quite obvious how (many people) * (a
small amount) = (a large(ish) amount of money). That would certainly
pave the way to a continued development on Lilypond...

Christ van Willegen
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