Re: Should the LilyPond website mention financial support for contributors?

[Saul Tobin]

I support all of these suggestions.

My own two cents: I would like to contribute monthly, but I'd personally prefer to contribute to the project as a whole or the core developers as a group, if possible. It seems like it could be helpful to set project-level finances up in the long run anyway, given things like web hosting expenses.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 4:42 PM Karlin High <address@hidden wrote:

 From recent thread:

<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2018-11/msg00148.html>

I was following the LilyPond community for quite a while before
realizing that financially supporting developers was a thing. The most
obvious pages on the website, "Sponsoring" and "Help us" say nothing
about it:

<http://lilypond.org/sponsoring.html>

Lots of other websites have a "tip jar" for the site operator. How about
putting up some PayPal.Me links...

<https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/what-is-paypal.me-faq3025>

...for David Kastrup, Urs Liska, or other major contributors? Assuming
the contributors are open to the idea, and it fits with the way the
contributor and the community see their role in the project.

I guess project-level donations would also be possible, but then there's
the whole issue of managing the funds, and maybe non-profit organization
compliance if using GNU's donation systems. Giving directly to
contributors seems simpler.

I'm thinking such website changes would go through code review just like
anything else, giving the LilyPond community a chance to discuss what
contributors would get listed for financial support.
--
Karlin High
Missouri, USA

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