Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

[Robert Schmaus]

I can only subscribe to what Simon (and all other responders) wrote. 

Like Urs pointed out, that the absence of any reports about the financial 
situation on the developer side left me under the impression that it wasn't 
really problematic. I can understand that it's not pleasant sending out request 
for contributions - maybe someone else on the developer side who's familiar 
with the situation could do that instead on a - say - quarterly basis, so 
everyone's aware of that. After all, there are always new subscribers to the 
list, many of who were not yet aware of who actually carries the main burden of 
lilypond development. 

Apart from that I'd like to contribute as well - please send me the relevant 
information (I live in Germany).

Thanks for your fantastic work, Robert


> On 23 Oct 2015, at 03:10, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 22.10.2015 19:21, David Kastrup wrote:
>> As you all know, my sole source of income are donations from happy
>> LilyPond users.  It would appear that LilyPond users have stopped being
>> happy with my work.
> 
> You must know that this is not the case. I should be much surprised if I were 
> the only one to appreciate the highly complicated work you do, of which the 
> results sometimes are hard to grasp in their immediate effect. But that does 
> not diminish their value for the project at all, and unless I’m much mistaken 
> nobody currently working on LilyPond could rival your understanding of the 
> internals and your ability to fix them. I do not think one can construe a 
> link between the work you do and the sudden (?) decrease of funding; indeed, 
> you continue to make quite impressive and important changes.
> I have taken so much profit from your work that it’s about time I gave 
> something back. It can’t be as much as I’d certainly like to give, but if I 
> don’t remain the only one to take part, it will make a difference. Please 
> tell me (privately, I assume) where to direct the support. (You probably know 
> that I live in Germany.)
> 
> Yours sincerely, Simon
> 
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