Re: Mutopia

[Paul Morris]

"New contributions will not be added until such a new team is in place, 
although I will try to continue to process updates to existing contributions 
where possible."

This is from Chris Sawyer's message (copied below) to the Mutopia discussion 
list on November 25, 2012, in the thread "Mutopia must live!"  

Cheers,
-Paul

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All,

Thanks for the various messages during today.

As has become rather obvious, Mutopia activity has been almost 
non-existant for the last few months and the time has come for me to 
hand over leadership to someone new with the energy and enthusiasm to 
take the project forward.

I have been leading the project since 1999 but unfortunately no longer 
have the time to put in the hours required to bring the site up to 
modern standards and co-ordinate the addition and updating of contributions.

We attempted to set up a new system for handling contributions around a 
year ago but unfortunately that wasn't completed for various reasons.

I do not want to see Mutopia die due to lack of interest on my part, and 
am willing to work for several months with a new team to get things 
going again. However someone needs to volunteer to co-ordinate that team.

New contributions will not be added until such a new team is in place, 
although I will try to continue to process updates to existing 
contributions where possible.

Thanks to all who have supported Mutopia since 1999 and if you are 
interested in co-ordinating the project from now onwards please contact 
me by e-mail. If you want to see how things work at present, the source 
code for the website, scripts and all LilyPond files can be found in 
github. Of course I will give admin rights to the new co-ordinator so 
the project can be taken forward.

I still believe Mutopia is unique in offering "open source" sheet music 
that can be edited, transposed, arranged, etc. all using free software. 
I really hope that a new team can be found to continue the work.

Best regards,

Chris