Re: Supporting LilyPond development financially

[Marc Hohl]

Am 08.11.2012 10:38, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > 2012/11/8 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
> > > ...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.
That's true, but a "Sponsor!" or "Support Us!" button that redirects
to

http://www.lilypond.org/sponsoring.html

would make it easier to find the place where the money goes to. Than again, one 
can
decide whether to donate money, picks up a name on the "interested developers" 
list
(that's the easy part ;-) and makes his/her donation.

Marc