Hi Graham, I'm willing and (hopefully) able to help! I have experience in LaTeX so I might also get along with texinfo. I've edited quite a lot of html-files in my life. I might be able to do some mundane css-job. The »Ich nein katza,«-part sounds interesting to me! ;-). I might as well do some proofreading or translations into german. Maybe I can also work on some ly-files. Though being a stupid git I already managed to install git.
Where should I begin? Cheers, Patrick (PLS) -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:55:11 -0700 > Von: Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> > An: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: new website draft 5: help wanted, I mean it > http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html > > There's now an Examples section, thanks to Jonathan Kulp. > - currently, most examples have a "click-to-expand" thing. Some > of them don't work expanded, others don't work non-expanded. > But there's enough working stuff for you to get the idea. > > IS THIS WORTH IT? Making it work nicely in small+expanded > versions is turning out to be a pain. I'm wondering if we > should just stick to small examples, which are approximately > infinitely times easier to create/modify/regenerate. > > > More importantly, we need help. I recently re-iterated my claim > that the lilypond community should have the > program/bugs/documentation/website they deserve, but currently > this isn't happening -- Patrick and I have spent a ton of time and > effort on this website. > > - Patrick wants to spend time programming lilypond. I also want > him to spend time programming. He's doing nifty stuff like > fixing the SVG output, fixing misc bugs, and cleaning up a ton > of advanced documentation. > > WE NEED A NEW CSS PERSON. > > - I'm wasting a lot of time on mundane jobs. For example, the old > news page needs to be put into the new website source. This > means going through a bunch of things like > <h2>New German translaton! Aug 07, 2006</h2> > <p>Ich nein katza, <a href="http://blah";>auf blitzen</a> drie.</p> > and turning it into > @subheading New German Translation! 2006 Aug 07 > > Ich nein katza, @uref{http://blah, auf blitzen} drie. > Not hard. I could even train an undergraduate to do this job! > > WE NEED SOMEBODY TO WRITE TEXT. > > - I tend to rewrite / reword sentences as I work on them, but I > have a nasty habit of not reading the once I erase stuff and > write new material. The result is by native English speakers, > although it may slightly confusing. Not what we in a shiny > new website, that's for certain! > > (also, many sentences on the website could be rewritten to > reduce the words, reduce the complexity -- remember, we have > a fair chunk of non-native English readers, so let's not > elaborate our missives with loquatious (sp) verbitage) > > WE NEED SOMEBODY TO PROOFREAD TEXT. > > - Some of the examples could be improved... fancier formatting, > adding more text to the theory example, etc. > > WE NEED SOMEBODY TO WORK ON .LY FILES. > > > Now, I'm *completely* capable of doing any of those tasks (even > self-proofreading, once I get into the mood)... but > a) I don't think I should be doing so much work on this, and > b) if somebody does those jobs, I can tackle harder stuff. > > I'm *really* not doing much this summer other than lilypond -- I > have no job, no studies, no girlfriend -- so it's mainly a > question of "what parts of lilypond do I work on", not "will I > work on something". So, just like we all benefit from having > Patrick *not* working on CSS stuff, I think we would all benefit > from me *not* working on the website so much. > > Cheers, > -Graham > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- Neu: GMX Doppel-FLAT mit Internet-Flatrate + Telefon-Flatrate für nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
