"Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: > Colin Hall wrote Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:44 PM > > >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:26:34PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: >>> >>> > Mailing list arguments are a trickier issue. It???s clearly a big >>> > problem, but this isn???t something we can fix by waving a change of >>> > policy. I???ll schedule a time to discuss it. We need to do >>> > something about this, although at the moment I have no immediate >>> > suggestions. >>> >>> I have one. It may sound absurd, but then I have learnt "once you ruled >>> out the impossible whatever remains however improbable might be >>> effective", and there are a few things that somehow or other appear to >>> be hard, particularly for me. Decent communication in electronic media >>> is one of the things I am spectacularly bad at. One thing that has >>> turned out to be effective at times is meeting people in person. >> >> I think this is an excellent idea. > > I agree; although I'm afraid I can't be present. I'm not really > a core developer, so couldn't contribute much to the discussion > anyway.
The idea of workshopping is to open perspectives. It is not like LilyPond itself is documented in a degree where you can get a full picture just by looking at it. The grounds are nice around here, and there is recording and Midi equipment that might be nice playing with and several instruments (accordions, keyboards, guitar, and if there is interest, I can borrow back my violin from my mother). The nicest regular TeX conference I know is in Bachotek, Poland. There is just a single track but over five days, and if you instead meet with others, run in the vicinity, go swimming, meet with song and beer at the bonfire and so on and so on, you can get a lot of thinking and not thinking done. It is basically in the middle of the woods. A lot of celebrities in the TeX world turn up there again and again. It is more about the community building than the technical aspects, but then technical decisions and presentations and coordination also happen there. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
