Trevor Bača wrote:
On 7/5/06, Stewart Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I suggest that you start a discussion thread on mutopia's mailing
lists:
> If
> you have constructive ideas on how to create an archive of
high-quality
> public domain notes, then I would strongly recommend you to use
your ideas
> to
> improve mutopia; if that's not possible, use mutopia as a base for
> creating
> such an archive (i.e., fork the mutopia project).
Unfortunately I don't really have constructive ideas how to improve it;
Well -- and this is a straw-man argument -- there's always the example
of SlashDot and other projects with 'community content-filtering'. If
the mutopia crew *could*, somehow, establish a system of community
review, well then, maybe mutopia could become a repository of really
professional-looking stuff.
The difficulty, I think, is that it's probably easier to evaluate the
wittiness of others' comments (or the relevance of news stories, as on
SlashDot) than it is to evaluate the professional-ness of music
engraving. So even if mutopia set up some sort of community filtering,
it's not clear that the filtering would work.
Dunno.
Not that I care too much one way or the other about mutopia, but I do
believe community filtering can work if implemented properly, and if
there enough people involved who care about it. As a contributor of
packages to the Fedora Linux distribution (including a lilypond
package), my packages are subjected to a fairly rigorous review process
before they are accepted. The process has worked so well that the Core
part of the distribution (the part packaged by engineers at Red Hat) has
adopted some of the quality control processes used by Fedora Extras (the
packages submitted by community members) because Extras was generating
better quality work than Core. The same is true of academic journals
that require peer review.
I think another question regarding selling scores is how much people
would be willing to pay. Obviously the engraving quality must be as good
or better than any print edition, but even then, while I might be
willing to pay a little, I don't know if it would be enough to make this
a viable fundraising method (unless the potential audience is quite large).
Quentin
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