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

[Nils]

Kickstarter is USA only.

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:01:08 +0100
Brent Annable <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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 <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> 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 after a grant seems the most logical
> > thing
> > > to do.  So I looked into the National Endowment for the Arts and the
> > > National Endowment for the Humanities.  NEA has nothing that looks
> > > interesting, unfortunately.  However, NEH has two initiatives that seem
> > > interesting.  One is concerned with preservation; the other is concerned
> > > with improve digital access to collected materials.
> > >
> > > 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:
> > >
> > > http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
> >
> > Some comments:
> >
> > 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 off on the proposal, since
> > LilyPond itself has little formal recognition. Also, for EU research
> > grants specifically, they were focused a lot on partnerships with and
> > things that helped small and medium enterprises, and we couldn't
> > invent a story around that.
> >
> > As for these grants specifically: you will need to invent something
> > outrageously new involving LilyPond (now in its 14th year of
> > existence), to qualify for the "startup" grant; the collections
> > initiative looks like a better fit.
> >
> > > A) Development of ly2xml
> > > B) Development of a lilypond scoring standard for the project, so that
> > > scholars would know how to compare scores.
> > > C) Development of score_ocr2ly, which would take a score pdf and turn it
> > > into .ly files matching the lilypond scoring standard
> >
> > Heh.  This is a known problem, and the OCR part is very, very
> > difficult. It also has nothing to do with lilypond.
> >
> > > So I'd like to ask the developers (and the users):  Does this seem
> > > interesting to you?  Is this something that is worth trying to put
> > > together?  Is anybody interested in contributing to a grant proposal?
> >
> > I'd be happy to provide any references or recommendations for the
> > LilyPond project as a whole.
> >
> > > If there seems to be enough interest, I'll visit with the music librarian
> > > at BYU, and see if there is any institutional interest.
> >
> > I'd talk with someone from the local music/humanities department that
> > has experience with writing grants and the funding body.  Of course,
> > if you got grants in the past, that might be less necessary.
> >
> > --
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
> >
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