On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:10:49AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > What we would need is a payed full-time developer.
That could help. Or at least having a sponsorship page up, which brings us back to the GOP policy list and the current decision not to begin discussing those until we've gotten 2.14 out the door. > But maybe there is a group of LilyPond philanthropists who can afford > this and are willing to do so... I'm not optimistic about that; I think a more realistic opportunity would be to get some grant money from some artistic organization. Either a music-composition grant (of which a composer might dedicate x% towards lilypond sponsorship), or an art history / research grant. I think the latter is more likely... for example, if somebody got a grant to typeset 17th century Norweigan folk songs, and decided to use lilypond, and spent x% of the grant towards "improving community-oriented tools for folk music archival", etc. Of course, writing artistic and research grants is a non-trivial amount of work, and it's hardly guaranteed to have any results. But I think that with the right angle -- be that "collaborative folk music archival", or "high-quality, specialized music notation", or "educational software for cheap 3rd-world donated computers", I could imagine getting a grant. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
