Re: My finances for working on LilyPond

[Paul Morris]

> On Oct 23, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 1) DOWNLOAD PAGE
> What's the most viewed page in the website (excluding the home)? Probably the 
> download page:
> http://lilypond.org/website/download.html
> 
> Let's add there a big Note saying something like: "Our most active main 
> developer David Kastrup is working full-time on LilyPond development and need 
> your support to make a living. If you use and love LilyPond, please allow 
> David to continue his precious work by contributing whatever amount of money 
> you can afford. [link to Community>Sponsoring page]"
> 
> 2) SPONSORING PAGE
> I can guess without looking at 'git log' that the sponsoring page was written 
> by Graham :-)
> It does not encourage any donation, right? The feeling is very different from 
> what we are reading in many replies in this thread. Maybe it's time to change 
> it a little bit?
> 
> 3) GITSTATS

I agree that doing some things along these lines would be a good idea.  

Another possibility is to combine the "help us"[1] and “sponsoring"[2] pages.  
That way all the ways to help further LilyPond are in one place and we could 
link to it from the download page and/or home page with some appropriate 
message.  Combining these pages would also help reduce the large number of 
sub-pages under Community heading.  The content of the “sponsoring” page could 
become a single section on the “help us” page with a heading like “Bounties and 
Sponsorships”.  Maybe “contributing” is a good heading for all these things, 
i.e. we could have a single “contributing” page instead of “help us” and 
“sponsoring” pages?  

(Apparently I’m always thinking about what to name things…)

-Paul

[1] http://lilypond.org/help-us.html
[2] http://lilypond.org/sponsoring.html