From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 05:45:25 EST
On 04/12/2003 16:51, Michael Everson wrote:
> ...
> With all due respect, the SIL is a large organization with
> considerable sources of funding, full-time staff, and so on. ...
Those sources of funding are almost entirely charitable donations, and
mostly from ordinary people rather than super-rich evangelists. The
full-time staff almost all receive no salaries but rely on charitable
giving for support. I was suggesting that people could support a
particular project which is providing freely available tools for Unicode
conversion and free fonts (see http://scripts.sil.org), which (as I
understand it) is having funding difficulties at the moment perhaps
because ordinary donors don't understand the importance of this work -
and losing key personnel although I don't know if this is a funding issue.
> ... The SEI, on the other hand, exists to try to support the
> preparation of proposal for encoding new scripts and characters in the
> standard. The SEI needs the support of readers of this list more than
> SIL does, if anyone is thinking of making a donation.
Michael, I don't want to take away any support from SEI. Readers can
decide which purposes they wish to support, and may also wish to take
into account tax deductible status.
> ...
>
> Doing the work of encoding the missing scripts isn't enough to attract
> donations? Realizing that one is helping the Unicode Project, helping
> to enable the encoding of the written history of our species, isn't
> enough?
Well, there might be people who have no interest in the general problem
of encoding missing scripts, but who want a Gothic etc font and are
prepared to make a generous donation to someone who can supply them with
one.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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