On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:38:53AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Francisco Vila <[email protected]> writes: > > If I were the sole designer/developer of the web page, I'd put a big > > star-shaped Donate! or Sponsor! button clearly visible on the front > > page. Tiny, personal projects do it all the time. > > Ah, but this is not a tiny, personal project. We discussed this before, > and putting a "Donate to David" button on a central LilyPond page was > deemed inappropriate. And just to make this very clear: _I_ consider it > inappropriate as well. "Donating to the LilyPond project" and "Donating > to David" are separate things, and I don't want any mechanism in place > where the first is more or less silently converted into the second.
David is completely correct here. I would encourage interested people to put more effort into fostering and maintaining a community: lilynet, maybe blogs, maybe making mutopia (or some platform) more active, etc. At the moment there's a huge gap between the daily activity of mailing lists and most users. lilynet is a good start, but it's always in need of more contributors and a more regular schedule. And more advertising... nobody added lilynet 28 to the main lilypond website news, for example. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
