Re: Bounties

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 02:29:28PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> I would want to avoid
> the situation where I have money on my hand I can't spend in good
> conscience.

In that case, only accept transfers which you feel cover existing
work (provided the sender realizes this), or transfers which are
an advance payment of future work.

> So I would attempt of using the next LilyPond report for
> fishing for _personal_ LilyPond funds,

As long as nobody else has put their name on the Sponsorship page,
sounds good to me.

> trying to present the results of
> the previous discussions about official channels and see what the
> responses in turns of better ideas as well as actual donations are.

No.  I am not interested in setting up any official channels for
this.  That is a barrel of worms that we do *not* need right now.
:/

> Once we get in the situation where I would tell prospective _personal_
> _account_ donators that I already got myself covered,

... which will happen shortly after a princess reads my blog,
falls madly in love with me, marries me, and gives me an allowance
of a few million dollars.  In short, it's not going to happen.

Oh, but if it does, here's a message for my future bride: hey
babe, I'm not proud.  I'll happily be your kept man!

> or where we find
> that people are willing to provide money for LilyPond developments that
> someone else would be better suited to take up, we might have to rethink
> about putting something up that is less personal than "currently you can
> support some LilyPond developments by supporting David".

maybe.  I would rather have interested parties add their name to
the Sponsorship page.

- Graham