Hello All, Having made the decision that OLL is worth preserving (thank you all for your feedback), I have thrown my efforts in to setting it all up anew, with a principal aim of making it easier to use and better well known. OLL has languished somewhat in obscurity for a while, only really utilized by those in the know. I know both Urs and myself want to see it more widely appreciated and further developed.
As mentioned in an earlier post I will be starting afresh with a new git project at Gitlab. I will do that over the next few days. I have created a website for OLL with Wordpress running on my own virtual Linux Server in Singapore (or is it New York? !) This I envision as a central hub for OLL activities and information, especially documentation and tutorial material. Here's the site, in initial release, with much to do. https://openlilylib.space/ Please observe the TLD is .space and not .org. As a further comment., I do a lot of work making websites and mailing lists as well as engraving 300 page string quartets in lilypond, so I am contemplating setting up a Discouse server as a forum for OLL discussion. Discourse supports 95% of what traditional email lists do in parallel to being a very widely used web forum platform now. I myself am the one very wary of balkanisation of lilypond development effort, and I am not entirely happy with setting up a separate world for OLL, but presently with no sign of OLL becoming integrated into Lilypond core, I think having an OLL ecosystem independent of the lilypond-user mailing list is worthwhile. I may be wrong! In any case, we need it for the documentation. I am providing the resources at my own expense, but there are costs such as domain name registration, server hosting. Wordpress bits and bobs and so on. Not right now, but I may make a polite request on the OLL website for donations in the future to run the system. Very small beer amounts.This I only mention as I have complex health issues (a very rare incurable blood cancer) that forced me out the workforce some time ago and I no longer have a salary, else I would happily pay for all this myself. To that extent also, although I don't need technical help presently with the OLL move, and I do appreciate people having made kind offers, I will be looking in the medium term to hand over to other people. Speaking as an IT Enterprise Architect (my former work) this I term Succession Planning - and it's just as important as coding and debugging. Andrew
