Federico Bruni <[email protected]> writes: > During a recent discussion I suggested few ideas to make the > sponsoring page more visible: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-10/msg00131.html > > But after reading this old thread: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-11/msg00131.html > > I realize that I don't want to discuss,
Well, the situation underlying that discussion is not quite the same as our developer landscape has changed. I'm not particularly thrilled about having become a more important part of LilyPond infrastructure by having others drop out. There has been an offer by the FSF to collect and disburse donations for LilyPond. They are taking a 10% cut if I remember correctly, but it would allow credit card processing, donation buttons and some other fairly standard stuff. I declined last time this was brought up since I barely made ends meet and am less than convinced that microdonations will make up for dedicated people putting up a regular plan (of course, they still could). However, stipulating that it's not all that unlikely that I fail to actively maintain contributor relations at some time again in future, and that the consequences of that may be quite worse than a 10% cut, it might still be worth thinking about. But it's likely still a shaky proposition since one needs a whole lot of small payments to make up for one person with a more substantial dedication. In the end, every dime paid out has to be paid in. "If everybody contributed just a dollar per month", then we would only need perhaps 1500 people on a continuing basis to keep me somewhat reliably funded. So I'm fairly skeptical towards the micropayment narrative. > - Download page: add a Note box with a link to the Sponsoring page > (which is hidden under Community), so that casual users, not > subscribed to lilypond-user, may know about this possibility. > > - Sponsoring page: update the statistics (reminder for Phil), see: > https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/2086/ Well, some basics would certainly not be amiss, yes. I'm not overly enthused about these statistics as they tell only a small part of the story, but then better to tell a small part rather than nothing. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
