Re: Should the LilyPond website mention financial support for contributors?

2018-11-09 Thread Saul Tobin
I support all of these suggestions. My own two cents: I would like to contribute monthly, but I'd personally prefer to contribute to the project as a whole or the core developers as a group, if possible. It seems like it could be helpful to set project-level finances up in the long run anyway,

Re: Should the LilyPond website mention financial support for contributors?

2018-11-09 Thread Tim McNamara
There’ve been many discussions about how to manage funding and contributing especially for those of us who cannot contribute to the coding. The Lilypond project doesn’t have any administration or central organization to be responsible for soliciting, collecting, accounting for and distributing

Should the LilyPond website mention financial support for contributors?

2018-11-09 Thread Karlin High
From recent thread: I was following the LilyPond community for quite a while before realizing that financially supporting developers was a thing. The most obvious pages on the website, "Sponsoring" and "Help us" say

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Karlin High
On 11/9/2018 8:00 AM, Ben wrote: I'd like to setup a system where I can easily give more frequently and regularly to show support, now that my situation has changed as well. I thought there would be a way to set a "recurring payment" in PayPal. But it looks like that is only available from

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Andrew Bernard
No it is not insidious. The money remains in your balance until accepted by the receiver. It's a good and fluent system. If the receiver does not accept it, it remains your money. Paypal international fees are vastly lower than our Australian bank charges. Useful and easy and completely ethical.

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Caio Barros
Em qui, 8 de nov de 2018 às 21:42, Thomas Morley escreveu: > Am Mi., 27. Juni 2018 um 22:31 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I've been afraid of looking at my bank account for the past months but > > finally had to do so. For the last three months, the payments from > >

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 9. November 2018 16:02:44 MEZ schrieb Karlin High : > >>And yes, sending PayPal to an email address works fine. As I >>understand it, if the person doesn't already have a PayPal account, >>they'll receive an email with instructions how to set one up to claim >>the funds. >

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Karlin High
On 11/9/2018 11:26 AM, David Wright wrote: If you're UK-based and sending foreign currency, you should of course use a credit or debit card that has no foreign currency (loading) fees. Dunno quite. I think I undersand the idea: by doing a EUR -> EUR transaction in PayPal, the currency

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Ben
On 11/8/2018 6:40 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: Am Mi., 27. Juni 2018 um 22:31 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup : Hi folks, I've been afraid of looking at my bank account for the past months but finally had to do so. For the last three months, the payments from LilyPond users were stable: one paying

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Guy Stalnaker
Yes, using d...@gnu.org from within PayPay (web or mobile app) will get to him. PayPal will let you specify local currency or Euros. Regards. On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 8:01 AM Ben On 11/8/2018 6:40 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > > Am Mi., 27. Juni 2018 um 22:31 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup > : > > > > Hi

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Ben
On 11/9/2018 9:19 AM, Guy Stalnaker wrote: Yes, using d...@gnu.org from within PayPay (web or mobile app) will get to him. PayPal will let you specify local currency or Euros. Regards. On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 8:01 AM Ben wrote: On

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Karlin High
On 11/9/2018 8:43 AM, Ben wrote: Is it better to use *his* local currency, I assume? Or are there fees on his end that I can avoid? USD vs. Euro I'd say it's better for the receiver if funds are sent in their main currency. Expect a 2% to 3% conversion fee; exact rates will be shown before

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 9. November 2018 16:02:44 MEZ schrieb Karlin High : >On 11/9/2018 8:43 AM, Ben wrote: > >> Is it better to use *his* local currency, I assume? Or are there fees >on >> his end that I can avoid? USD vs. Euro > >I'd say it's better for the receiver if funds are sent in their main >currency.

Re: My finances.

2018-11-09 Thread David Wright
On Fri 09 Nov 2018 at 09:02:44 (-0600), Karlin High wrote: > On 11/9/2018 8:43 AM, Ben wrote: > > Is it better to use *his* local currency, I assume? Or are there > > fees on his end that I can avoid? USD vs. Euro > > I'd say it's better for the receiver if funds are sent in their main >