Hi Gilles (et al.), > Whether or not funds will be obtained is a question that comes only > after people at various levels are made aware that LilyPond exists.
I totally agree. We should be pushing for Lilypond to be taken up by as many educational and commercial [!!] institutions as possible, and making it easier for them to do so — that’s the only way to raise awareness (and, eventually, acceptance or even embrace) of Lilypond. Hence my enthusiastic support of Urs’s line of thinking. With regard to higher education, I’ve often thought that the development and marketing/support of a “turnkey course” in Lilypond — including “one click” application installation, and all necessary (and well-designed) teaching materials and files — would go a long way to helping raise awareness of Lilypond in the [very large] education market. And, as borne out time and time again, getting students interested in something is a agreat way of turning them into lifelong users. > What I had in mind was creating the scores which music schools use > for teaching music (solfege and instrument). You should definitely do that! > Here, (public) music schools were forced to pay publishers a yearly > contribution under threats of legal action against them because of > their use of photocopies, even though most of the copyrighted > material being copied is actually based on public domain contents As I pointed out in a previous post, that’s an issue better taken up with the legislation in a given country (or worldwide). Best, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
