Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:29:00PM +0000, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> So I looked into the National Endowment for the Arts and the >> National Endowment for the Humanities. > > I could see this funding Americans to work on lilypond programming > while living in America. > > I could see this potentially funding Americans to work on lilypond > programming while living outside of America (i.e. Mike Solomon).
[...] > I can not see this funding non-Americans working outside of > America. For what it is worth, I can wave an American citizenship around if required for this purpose. But even while I am probably looking like one of the more interesting venues of turning funding into progress, it would be good to figure out non-US-centric approaches as well. > I've said that grants are the best way to have "commercial" funding > for lilypond. However, they tend to be country-specific. For David, > an EU grant would be best; I am pessimistic that he could be funded > with a US grant unless he was willing to move there. As I said: the required citizenship would be available, but indeed most US-specific funding options tend to have "US residency" attached. > The other question is whether to aim the grant directly at > lilypond, or instead include a bit of lilypond development as part > of a different grant. Just like most (US) universities skim > 10%-50% off of any grant for "operating expenses", a grant could > direct 10-20% of its money towards program development, ideally > focused on its area. For example, I could imagine a grant to > preserve the history of Spanish guitar music spending maybe 10% on > general lilypond development, 10% on tablature-specific lilypond > development, and the rest on students to typeset guitar music, > make scores available online, write a book, etc etc. The problem is to find a nice middle path between "grantability" and "general usefulness". -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
