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Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLil
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond |
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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:14:49 +0100 |
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"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:57 AM
>
>> there is a large inheritage of great music that is already in the public
>> domain. LilyPond would be a great contender for maintaining publically
>> accessible databases of importance. What is needed for that is a
>> robustness in the sources:
>>
>> a) getting serious quality without version-specific tweaks
>> b) a dependable upgrade plan when LilyPond advances
>> c) good conversion to MusicXML
>> d) possibly also good import
>> e) good human readability in case machine translation fails for some
>> reason
>> f) reasonably easy machine readability outside of LilyPond
>>
>> Maintaining a cultural database in proprietary formats like Finale is a
>> recipe for trouble: if at one point company or format or compatibility
>> fail, the content becomes inaccessible. This is a big selling point for
>> LilyPond, and if it makes progress in some other areas, it will become
>> interesting for this sort of task also outside of the public domain
>> area. If it becomes commercially viable to reissue classics using a
>> public LilyPond database as a starting point, there will be a sizable
>> market for LilyPond skills.
>>
>> But I don't see us there yet, and a good part of my focus is on work
>> leading there.
>
> Would kickstarter be a way of getting started?
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/
If one can put together a good roadmap. But in this case, the "let's
put up a front for collecting money for David" angle is insufficient.
There is a considerable amount of planned work to do by different
people. Personally, I am lousy at following plans: I am good at
shoveling crap that annoys me at the moment and replacing it with saner
things. I am excellent at that, but it is not the whole job. So while
I certainly would enjoy working as _part_ of such a plan, we would
_definitely_ need more ways to turn money into progress than just
myself, or things are doomed to failure. And this also means that we
need considerable more funding than a "let's keep David working on
LilyPond as he considers fit at the moment because he is such a nice,
uh, because he seems to be good at it" fund would require.
Of course, the first kind of fund might be a decidedly easier package to
sell, but then we also need to think about how we can deliver. I know
myself well enough to know that I don't have the self-control to pull
this through alone.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, (continued)
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, Janek Warchoł, 2012/02/08
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, Graham Percival, 2012/02/08
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, David Kastrup, 2012/02/08
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, Carl Sorensen, 2012/02/08
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, Graham Percival, 2012/02/08
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, Nils, 2012/02/08
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, Hans Aberg, 2012/02/08
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, Janek Warchoł, 2012/02/08
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, David Kastrup, 2012/02/09
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond, Trevor Daniels, 2012/02/10
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond, Graham Percival, 2012/02/10
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond, Graham Percival, 2012/02/10
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond, Janek Warchoł, 2012/02/11
- Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development onLilyPond, Robert Schmaus, 2012/02/10
Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/02/09