Re: LilyPond developer&user meeting in Waltrop, August 24th to 28th

[David Kastrup]

Rodolfo Zitellini <address@hidden> writes:

> I think I could come more or less from the 24th to the 27th, do you
> have already planned some of the activities?

It is a bit hard to do at the current level of registrations.  Graham is
there the whole time, Mike will arrive on Saturday noonish.  Several
Germans will likely arrive on Saturday.  It probably makes sense to
focus the weekend on the more user-accessible aspects of Scheme
programming: what one can do in the realm of music functions, music and
markup manipulation.  Also auxiliary programs, like editors, Midi
workflow, LilyPond exporting applications.

It probably makes sense to already start on Friday with "basic" Scheme
stuff: general features of Scheme/Guile, Scheme as a general purpose
programming language, programming constructs, and finally how music
expressions are dealt with in Scheme.  Possibly also put a flex/bison
parser session there.

Monday perhaps Build System and other scripting stuff, as well as
Scheme-level backend programming (engravers, grobs, pure/unpure).  Also
try to get more people acquainted with "how to roll a release".

Tuesday as reserve track for now.

That's the rough distribution of themes that I consider likely to be of
interest and somewhat compatible with the rather meagre details of who
will be there when I know for now.

> I really look forward in learning more about Lily's internals, ad I
> would be glad if I could help with debugging the build scripts (which
> scripting language do you use?) - also I will be glad to discuss my
> experience in using lilypond in a "musicological" friendly way.

Looking forward to seeing you!

-- 
David Kastrup