Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> writes: > I think this is a huge opportunity to bring LilyPond forward. First > this will bring us a whole new range of users and use cases, maybe > even to a point where a general audience will take notice of LilyPond > on a different level. Second this potential new user base (the > academic music edition community) can be expected to contribute back > to LilyPond, in short and on the long run. And finally this project > would mean significant amounts of money (= development capacity) > thrown at us, and one can assume a significant share of that going > into LilyPond development itself, and a significant share of *that* > part benefitting LilyPond users in general, without considering the > MEI/Digital Edition part.
Well, the main question when money is about to get thrown at a project is whether there is a viable way to convert that money into work being done. We have a very large hobbyist quota in the project, people who on the one hand work for the love of working on LilyPond and on the other hand tend to have a steady job already they are not likely to give up. So they tend to work in their free time in the things interesting to them, and money is likely not a major motivator for them to working focusedly on something else. There are a few small publishers among formerly and possibly currently active developers. It's conceivable that they might have either interest or capacity and capability for contributing to solutions here. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
