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 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 - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-u...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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