Count me in as a developer if there's room. Work is slow for me at the moment and I would enjoy working on the project.
Best, Abraham On Monday, October 19, 2015, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n182481...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Dear developers, > > most of you will know or at least have noticed that I have thought about > integrating LilyPond and the XML based MEI format. If not you might > consider reading my current post on http://lilypondblog.org for an > introduction. Today I would like to make kind of an announcement and > call for discussion. > > Chances are pretty good that there will be a publicly funded development > project with the goal of integrating LilyPond and MEI or - in a somewhat > grander context - integrating professional music engraving in current > digital music edition concepts. The project is intended to be hosted at > the institute for music informatics at the music university in > Karlsruhe/Germany and the ZenMEM (http://zenmen.de), a Digital > Humanities institute founded for coordinating German research on digital > music edition. The ZenMEM will also submit the application to the DFG > (German Research Union). The actual scope and scale of the project > application will have to be considered carefully but we start discussion > with a three year project with two full positions. If we can make it > plausible there might be the option to add some portions to commission > individual development tasks externally. > So while we still have to write an application and hope for its > acceptance it is at least clear that the application *will* happen and > there are reasons to consider it a promising application. > > I think this is a huge opportunity to bring LilyPond forward. First this > will bring us a whole new range of users and use cases, maybe even to a > point where a general audience will take notice of LilyPond on a > different level. Second this potential new user base (the academic music > edition community) can be expected to contribute back to LilyPond, in > short and on the long run. And finally this project would mean > significant amounts of money (= development capacity) thrown at us, and > one can assume a significant share of that going into LilyPond > development itself, and a significant share of *that* part benefitting > LilyPond users in general, without considering the MEI/Digital Edition > part. > > The task at hand is to produce the application which starts with > outlining the development tasks, starting with ideas and wishes but > pinning them down as concretely as possible. We intend to submit the > application by the end of the year and have a meeting where people from > the MEI and the LilyPond developer communities get together and outline > possible tasks, with special consideration of the obstacles to overcome > because of some conceptual incompatibilities. > > The actual discussion should take place on another, dedicated list, and > I'll post to that about the outline as it currently stands. But I want > to invite anyone from here to participate in that discussion as it's > presumably an important and hopefully fruitful one for LilyPond. If > you're interested in it please get in touch with me (if you aren't > already). > > Best > Urs > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-devel mailing list > [hidden email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=182481&i=0> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Planning-a-MEI-to-LilyPond-project-tp182481.html > To start a new topic under Dev, email > ml-node+s1069038n88644...@n5.nabble.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ml-node%2bs1069038n88644...@n5.nabble.com');> > To unsubscribe from Lilypond, click here > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=2&code=dGlzaW1zdC5saWx5cG9uZEBnbWFpbC5jb218Mnw4MzU3Njg3MDU=> > . > NAML > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Planning-a-MEI-to-LilyPond-project-tp182481p182482.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
