Having brought this up once before, here is an URL to a European Commission website, which discusses the possibility to get free software development projects financed through their IST program. It appears that the possibilities for this have become a lot better lately. There is *a lot* of documentation to read and the procedure is traditionally bureaucratic to the extreme, but... would this be something for LyX to use? It would need a co-ordinator which should be a legal person of some kind (INRIA?). Having companies along (esp. small ones; Kalle Dalheimer's firm? And/or SuSE, our last meeting sponsor?) is looked upon favourably. Deadline 17 oct. Any ideas? (And no, I am not volunteering :-( ) Martin http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka4/tesss/impl_free.htm -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helsinki University of Technology Department of Surveying P.O. Box 1200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland :wq