On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Jonas Olson <jol...@kth.se> writes: >> When donating, is there any mechanism in place by which funds will be >> donated only if some target level is reached by all donations >> together? I'm speculating people might be more comfortable when they >> know that they will lose money if and only if it is precisely what >> makes the difference between you working and not working on LilyPond >> full time.
In my opinion, the "cap thing" does exactly that. Besides, i think the core of the problems lies elsewhere: 1) most of the people thinks this doesn't concern them 2) many people think "i cannot afford / i'm not comfortable with donating 10 euro/month, so i won't donate anything". This is really sad; Lily has hundreds (thousands?) of users and if they donated 1 euro each month (doesn't this sound funny concerning how powerful LilyPond is?) it would make a big difference. > You propose a system with a guarantee that I will not get any payment at > all unless a minimum is met, meaning that I have to finance the whole > month on my own. This is not exactly going to extend the time I will be > able to work on LilyPond while tapping into my own non-replenishable > reserves. I don't see that it would make sense for me to offer a plan > where people pay less in case more is needed. I agree with David. best, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
