new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it

[Graham Percival]

http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html

There's now an Examples section, thanks to Jonathan Kulp.
- currently, most examples have a "click-to-expand" thing.  Some
  of them don't work expanded, others don't work non-expanded.
  But there's enough working stuff for you to get the idea.

  IS THIS WORTH IT?  Making it work nicely in small+expanded
  versions is turning out to be a pain.  I'm wondering if we
  should just stick to small examples, which are approximately
  infinitely times easier to create/modify/regenerate.


More importantly, we need help.  I recently re-iterated my claim
that the lilypond community should have the
program/bugs/documentation/website they deserve, but currently
this isn't happening -- Patrick and I have spent a ton of time and
effort on this website.

- Patrick wants to spend time programming lilypond.  I also want
  him to spend time programming.  He's doing nifty stuff like
  fixing the SVG output, fixing misc bugs, and cleaning up a ton
  of advanced documentation.

  WE NEED A NEW CSS PERSON.

- I'm wasting a lot of time on mundane jobs.  For example, the old
  news page needs to be put into the new website source.  This
  means going through a bunch of things like
    <h2>New German translaton!  Aug 07, 2006</h2>
    <p>Ich nein katza, <a href="http://blah";>auf blitzen</a> drie.</p>
  and turning it into
    @subheading New German Translation!  2006 Aug 07

    Ich nein katza, @uref{http://blah, auf blitzen} drie.
  Not hard.  I could even train an undergraduate to do this job!

  WE NEED SOMEBODY TO WRITE TEXT.

- I tend to rewrite / reword sentences as I work on them, but I
  have a nasty habit of not reading the once I erase stuff and
  write new material.  The result is by native English speakers,
  although it may slightly confusing.  Not what we in a shiny
  new website, that's for certain!

  (also, many sentences on the website could be rewritten to
  reduce the words, reduce the complexity -- remember, we have
  a fair chunk of non-native English readers, so let's not
  elaborate our missives with loquatious (sp) verbitage)

  WE NEED SOMEBODY TO PROOFREAD TEXT.

- Some of the examples could be improved... fancier formatting,
  adding more text to the theory example, etc.

  WE NEED SOMEBODY TO WORK ON .LY FILES.


Now, I'm *completely* capable of doing any of those tasks (even
self-proofreading, once I get into the mood)... but
  a) I don't think I should be doing so much work on this, and
  b) if somebody does those jobs, I can tackle harder stuff.

I'm *really* not doing much this summer other than lilypond -- I
have no job, no studies, no girlfriend -- so it's mainly a
question of "what parts of lilypond do I work on", not "will I
work on something".  So, just like we all benefit from having
Patrick *not* working on CSS stuff, I think we would all benefit
from me *not* working on the website so much.

Cheers,
 -Graham