On 28/03/2009 15:16, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes schreef:
Dear LyX developers,
I just received a new sponsorship from Beslist.nl (700 €). The only
thing they asked in exchange was to put a link to their news item for
a minimum of three years. I thought the deal was fair and the news
text is OK (http://www.beslist.nl/nieuws/82.html). Maybe I should
write some text saying that the citation in the donation page will
stay there for three years minimum.
Anyway, I think this is quite good news for LyX that commercial
companies are interested in sponsoring LyX. The other sponsorship of
this kind was of ten dollars or so from Broadcast Equipment Ltd, so
it does not count much.
It is good news if they are really interested and supportive of LyX
and not if they just want their name to be on a highly visited
website, who knows ?
Well maybe the LyX web site is quite popular who knows? :-)
Actually, we don't even know if LyX users count in the thousands,
hundreds of thousand or millions...
Serious question: would they have sponsored this project if their name
would have appeared on the website for a general donation ?
You mean a greater donation? Maybe.
Maybe we should add the names of the general donators too, to attract
companies to make a general donatino too and to accumulate some money
for the whole project and/or for all developers in one way or the other.
No problem with that personally.
If we receive some more money, I will suggest to delegate a company or a
fondation to take care of that.
I accepted the inline spellchecker task but if anybody is interested
in the doc comparison task, I'll gladly gives the money. I know that
Vincent has started to think about it already. If I manage to have
some free time in the coming month, I would for sure try to implement
the feature.
Yes, I would really like to step in right now and indeed I've been
thinking about it for a while. Besides, the bugs are running out
anyway. It would also be nice if I could construct a somewhat larger
feature to have something to be proud of.
Oh, I am already proud of you my boy :-)
More seriously, the money is all yours if you implement the feature.
I'll add your name in the table now if you want.
Abdel.
