Funding

The LuaTeX project is related to other projects in the TeX community. First of all it relates to the pdfTeX project which over the past years has received some funding from user groups and individuals and companies.

Programming LuaTeX is funded by:

• Oriental TeX Project, Colorado State University, Department of Philosophy (Idris Samawi Hamid): core reprogramming
• The NTG (Dutch Speaking Usergroup): equipment for software developer
• TUG (TeX User Group): complementary funding
• CAPDM, distant learning programmes (represented by Duncan Hothersall): complemetary funding

Thanks to this sponsoring Taco could spend company time on merging the pdfTeX and Aleph code base and writing the necessarry extensions.

Programming the associated MetaPost library is funded by several user groups:

• Dante (german langauge)
• TUG India
• TUG (international user group)
• NTG (dutch language)
• CSTUG (czech and slovak langauges)
• GUST (polish language)

The necessarry Open Type Fonts are provided by the TeX Gyre project:

• Dante (german langauge)
• TUG India
• TUG (international user group)
• NTG (dutch language)
• CSTUG (czech and slovak langauges)
• GUST (polish language)

The LuaTeX and MPlib project are coordinated by Taco Hoekwater (Elvenkind) and Hans Hagen (Pragma ADE). They are dedicating a considerable amount of company time to the development of LuaTeX.

Of course, TeXies around the world put lots of time into these developments as well.

Funding is only possible because the user groups have members. In addition to journals, distributions (TeX Live), meetings and mailing lists, supporting projects are an important effort of local user groups (LUGS) and TUG. The international user group has a web page for donations

If you're a happy TeX user and not yet a member of a usergroup, consider becoming one. You can find the home pages of user groups here.