If you haven't already, have a look at Ardour's subscription page
http://ardour.org/why_subscribe
This may be a viable answer. At one time, I was a subscriber,
contributing $4.00US per month via automated paypal withdrawl. $4.00/mo
is pretty painless when you lump it in with your other business
expenses. I'd be willing to do that or a little more with LilyPond,
since I use it more (often, for client work) than I use Ardour at the
moment, if the option was available.
Although Ardour's appeal is arguably broader (and perhaps, more
commercially oriented) than LilyPond's, just in terms of prospective
users, I think LilyPond has a dedicated base of users who would be glad
to contribute resources in a concrete and structured way. It might be
worth considering.
David
On 06/17/2010 12:12 PM, Editions IN NOMINE wrote:
Hi.
I thought one could order "pieces of improvment" (it's been a long time
since I read something on it...). The idea is : I pay for my personnel
need, and the improvment is put back in the community. This question
strikes me because I've just beginning to set up shop as an editor, and
I've planned to pay back part of my (future ;-) ) benefits to Lilypond.
As for last point of Valentin's respose, such models must already exist
: for instance, the Ubuntu project is worldwide, but the French
community is able to receive money on his own
(http://www.ubuntu-fr.org/soutien).
Any idea ?
Best regards
JM
Valentin Villenave a écrit :
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Marc Hohl
<address@hidden> wrote:
(I wouldn't surely be the ideal person for
founding a lilypond
users group), I am willing to spend a fee, say $50 a year, for
supporting the lilypond development. If there are 99 people more
(and I think there are a lot more!), we would have $5000 to pay
someone for improving lilypond.
As I mentioned in the other thread, there are plans to build such an
organization in France, from scratch (another possibility would be to
revive the (Netherlands-based?) LilyPond foundation, but we'd need
more information about it).
The main obstacle, of course, being the international essence of the
project, whereas non-profit organisations, bank accounts, etc. are
usually conceived in a nation-centric perspective.
Cheers,
Valentin
_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
address@hidden
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
_______________________________________________
lilypond-user mailing list
address@hidden
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
--
David Stocker
804-598-3762
http://notesettersinc.com
|