Re: LoMuS

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

The form says:

* In case of a collective work, I have been appointed to represent my
colleagues.

As a core contributor to LilyPond I hereby nominate Mike Solomon to
represent the LilyPond project.

Let's worry about what to do with money if and when we win.


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:09 AM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've received a couple e-mails from colleagues and one nudge from Valentin
> about:
>
> http://concours.afim-asso.org/
>
> I've been reticent about applying because the development community is
> rather diffuse and there isn't any good way to accept the prize money if we
> win.  However, after having received now two e-mails from people who I
> respect a lot in the French computer music community, I think it'd be a good
> idea and that we should let institutional barriers stop us from applying.
>
> I'm OK with writing up the application (due the 29th) but before I do,
> people would need to agree on where the prize money would go if we won.  My
> two thoughts are:
>
> 1) Use it internally on projects (i.e. we'd all agree that person X would
> get paid Z euros to do thing Y) in which case there'd have to be a money
> shepherd.  I'd rather not do this, but I can if no one else wants to.
> 2) Donate it to GNU.
>
> I'd be good to set a precedent for this now so that LilyPond can apply to
> other software competitions in the future.
>
> Cheers,
> MS
>
> P.S. Sorry for the last-minuteness of this e-mail: I had sent it from
> address@hidden and it didn't go through.  I'll have to change e-mail
> addresses on the list...
>
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