Hi David, Please let me know via separate e-mail how I can donate.
And below is a suggestion of an alternative funding mechanism for you to consider in the future. It seems to me that Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/) might be a good system in your case. (disclaimer: I have never used it myself, but I know the founder and trust him, and I find the concept very interesting). Patreon allows you to charge your supporters "per creation": in the case of software development it would probably be the "release" or announcement of a number of significant commits accumulated over a month or two. If you get a number of happy Lilypond users to become your regular "patrons", you'd get a more or less predictable and constant stream of support -- without having to remind people to donate every time. For example, if I were your supporter on the website, every time you make a release, Patreon would automatically charge me a fixed amount (I decide how much), notify me of your latest work, and transfer the money to you (minus Patreon's fee of 5%). From the patron side, a nice thing is that I can establish a cap for my monthly donations (in case you do more releases in a month that I could "afford"). Anyway, just an idea. Thanks for your work on Lilypond. I only became a more serious user in the last few months, and I can say I am a happy Lilypond user. Bruno On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:21 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > As you all know, my sole source of income are donations from happy > LilyPond users. It would appear that LilyPond users have stopped being > happy with my work. > > I've taken a look at my last bank report. In the last month I received: > > 1 donation of 200 EUR > 1 donation of 100 EUR > 2 donations of 25 EUR each. > > That's it (and honestly, the two large donations are embarrassing as > they are by people who have done more than I ever did on LilyPond and > who are helping people more on lists and forums than I do, > respectively). That does not even cover my rent, let alone medical > insurance, food, repairs, clothes or other stuff. Let alone pension > funds or similar luxuries. I'm currently bleeding about 800EUR per > month for working on LilyPond. > > What has happened in the last month? > > dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ git shortlog --since "1 month ago" -n -s > 48 David Kastrup > 12 Phil Holmes > 4 Jean-Charles Malahieude > 2 Dan Eble > 2 James Lowe > 1 Masamichi Hosoda > 1 Thomas Morley > > Well, 48 commits does not look like much, but I implemented > functionality to attach to slurs to single notes in a chord in that time > (important for tablature and piano music), designed and implemented an > interface for working with multiple slurs per Voice, fixed several bugs, > made c:5 in chord mode a power chord rather than equivalent to c major, > created several low-level functions for manipulating graphical object > properties like \offset does, removed a hard-to-understand internal > object called a "simple closure" and prepared for more simplifications. > > I will likely work several more months on those internals and if the > situation has not improved by then, call it quits. > > I thank all those who have supported me for this long. > > -- > David Kastrup > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-u...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
