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Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz


From: Janek Warchoł
Subject: Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 18:31:36 +0200

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jonas Olson <address@hidden> 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



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