On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:11 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Christ van Willegen <cvwille...@gmail.com> writes: >> If everyone on the mailing list chipped in 1 euro a month, that would >> get David out of financial problems, probably for the rest of his >> life... > > Just for the record, I am not having "financial problems":
That was part of my over-exageration. I was not saying that you had financial problems, but the message was meant to be: "If we all chipped in 1 euro per month, David could probably work on Lilypon the rest of his life." > >> A slight over-exageration, perhaps, but not far off I think. > > I think you are overestimating the readership here. I recently checked > the Cc list for my reports (so far nobody asked for getting removed from > that list) which consists of all people who have contributed so far. > I was actually surprised that it was about 80 entries long. True, > containing quite a few entries for one-time contributions or short > periods of time, but nevertheless the number does not appear negligible > compared to the active readership here. Any idea how much 'active readership' would be? > The thought "if everybody contributed just a little" seems compelling. Yes. It shares the burden of improving Lilypond. > It's actually my experience that those who pledge to contribute a > monthly payment less than €10 tend to stop after few months, probably > because they think it does not make a difference. Too bad :-( > So unless one manages to get along on lots of small one-time payments > (implying an even larger audience one has to reach), I don't see how > I can get around tapping those who are enthusiastic about LilyPond, are > "invested" in it, more than those who care only a little. If you look at Kickstarter, it's quite obvious how (many people) * (a small amount) = (a large(ish) amount of money). That would certainly pave the way to a continued development on Lilypond... Christ van Willegen -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user