Re: Blog posts, call for

[Urs Liska]

Am 23.12.2016 um 18:28 schrieb Devin Ulibarri:
> Urs Liska:
>> I just scrolled through a few pages of the Scores of Beauty
>> (http://lilypondblog.org) site and find that - in addition to the facth
>> that the rate of posts has substantially dropped - my name appears just
>> too exclusively. This isn't "my" blog but the "semi-official LilyPond" blog.
> 
> I did not even realize there was a lilypond blog... thanks for reminding
> everyone!

So it seems you'll have quite something ahead to catch up with ;-)

> 
>> The range of possible topics is really broad and could include short
>> tutorials about a certain challenge you have just mastered with the help
>> of the community, general thoughts about music/notation software or
>> reports of your own activities. We would really love to have more posts
>> about projects done with LilyPond. These could go into some depth about
>> technical detail or just give an impression on how it was doing the
>> project with LilyPond and how musicians responded to it.
>> Or anything else I just didn't think of.
> 
> Questions:
> 1) Would you be willing to publish an article about how Music Blocks (a
> visual coding language for music. Homepage at
> https://www.musicblocks.net) software generates lilypond code and how
> one can use Music Blocks software as an entry point to lilypond?
> 

Right now I don't have the time to look into this (for "seasonal
reasons") but I think this is exactly what is interesting. I didn't know
about Music Blocks, and so will (not) do many others.
BTW There's a post in the pipeline introducing Abjad
(http://abjad.mbrsi.org/), which does a similar thing extending Python.

> 2) Would you be willing to publish articles created by High School
> students participating in Google Code-in (GCI)? I could draft a task and
> we could have some kids write about their experience learning Lilypond
> from Music Blocks. Of course, you would still have the final say as to
> whether or not the blog posts would meet your standards and be published.

I think that would be really cool. You can prepare any number of such
posts, and we can publish them in a convenient sequence.
We don't have specific standards, and we can of course introduce the
post appropriately, so if students simply do their best it will be good,
I suppose. We usually do some peer review prior to publishing,
especially (but not exlusively!) with new authors, and this can be an
interative process. So yes, I'll definitely look forward to this!

Just tell me you're at a point where I should create user accounts for
you and the students.

Best
Urs

> 
> Otherwise, I could write something, but the above options would be fun
> and the idea is off the table in a few weeks as the GCI contest closes
> in mid-January.
> 
> Best,
> Devin
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