Francisco Vila <paconet....@gmail.com> writes: > 2012/11/8 Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com>: >> ...and we (Lily team) may need to rethink our strategies as well. >> Ben, we have this website about sponsoring Lily development: >> http://www.lilypond.org/sponsoring.html >> should we make it more visible? or should we make it more clear how >> it works? > > If I were the sole designer/developer of the web page, I'd put a big > star-shaped Donate! or Sponsor! button clearly visible on the front > page. Tiny, personal projects do it all the time.
Ah, but this is not a tiny, personal project. We discussed this before, and putting a "Donate to David" button on a central LilyPond page was deemed inappropriate. And just to make this very clear: _I_ consider it inappropriate as well. "Donating to the LilyPond project" and "Donating to David" are separate things, and I don't want any mechanism in place where the first is more or less silently converted into the second. Contributors could do worse for LilyPond than supporting me in this manner, but they have a choice, and they can take this personal choice after informing themselves, and it is _their_ responsibility if they decide to support me, and not a responsibility of the project. And it means if more people want to work on LilyPond in this manner, we don't need to have committees fight over allotments but everybody can make his own choice. As long as we don't get hit by the "too much choice, I'll do nothing instead" syndrome, I think it best if everybody can make his own informed choice. The problem is rather that the "informed choice" angle does not seem to work erll since the information does not get out enough from a core circle of developers and power users who are actually doing enough for LilyPond even without putting in money in _addition_ to everything else. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
