"m...@apollinemike.com" <m...@apollinemike.com> writes: > Hey all, > > I've received a couple e-mails from colleagues and one nudge from > Valentin about: > > http://concours.afim-asso.org/ > > I've been reticent about applying because the development community is > rather diffuse and there isn't any good way to accept the prize money > if we win. However, after having received now two e-mails from people > who I respect a lot in the French computer music community, I think > it'd be a good idea and that we should let institutional barriers stop > us from applying. > > I'm OK with writing up the application (due the 29th) but before I do, > people would need to agree on where the prize money would go if we > won. My two thoughts are: > > 1) Use it internally on projects (i.e. we'd all agree that person X > would get paid Z euros to do thing Y) in which case there'd have to be > a money shepherd. I'd rather not do this, but I can if no one else > wants to. > 2) Donate it to GNU.
We already donate LilyPond to GNU, so I'd lean towards 1). There are several unsexy infrastructure projects (meaning that if, say, I chose to tackle them, I would slow down to a crawl) which might get sexed up in that manner. And there are several projects requiring a coordinated amount of heavy lifting which might get tackled with that kind of encouragement. One thing is the skylines stuff, another would be Guilev2 migration. Paying the prize out once a month without regression from that area passes will certainly be a strong incentive, and probably will collect more interest than one would have imagined. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
