Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-03-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Reinhold Kainhofer writes: A) Development of ly2xml Reviewers would probably argue that this is not really scientific research and should be funded by an industry partner instead. Some may even note that the hardest part of this has already been prototyped as part of schikkers list and argue

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-03-08 Thread David Kastrup
Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: Reinhold Kainhofer writes: A) Development of ly2xml Reviewers would probably argue that this is not really scientific research and should be funded by an industry partner instead. Some may even note that the hardest part of this has already been

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-03-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Kastrup writes: Jan Nieuwenhuizen jann...@gnu.org writes: Reinhold Kainhofer writes: A) Development of ly2xml Reviewers would probably argue that this is not really scientific research and should be funded by an industry partner instead. Some may even note that the hardest part of

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-15 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
On 09/02/2012 12:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: I have tried getting grants from different EU and national bodies with various partner institutions (including the one where Graham now works, IIRC). My impression is that you need people (preferably many) with lots of academic clout that can sign

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-10 Thread Brent Annable
Just an idea: how about a Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/project? Or has this already been considered? Brent. On 9 February 2012 12:08, Han-Wen Nienhuys hanw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: I've been thinking about the

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-09 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu wrote: I've been thinking about the problem of sustaining LilyPond development long-term (and specifically the problem of obtaining enough money to support David K as long as he's interested). As I've thought about it, going

Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
Developers, I've been thinking about the problem of sustaining LilyPond development long-term (and specifically the problem of obtaining enough money to support David K as long as he's interested). As I've thought about it, going after a grant seems the most logical thing to do. So I looked

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-08 Thread Janek WarchoĊ‚
2012/2/8 Carl Sorensen c_soren...@byu.edu: Guidelines for the preservation grant (which will probably be due in July) are shown here: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html Guidelines for the digital humanities grants are shown here:

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:29:00PM +, Carl Sorensen wrote: So I looked into the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I could see this funding Americans to work on lilypond programming while living in America. I could see this potentially funding

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-08 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 2/8/12 11:01 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:29:00PM +, Carl Sorensen wrote: So I looked into the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I could see this funding Americans to work on lilypond

Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

2012-02-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 07:11:26PM +, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 2/8/12 11:01 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: I can not see this funding non-Americans working outside of America. If you look at the links, many of the successful grants either invite or require