"Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: > David Kastrup wrote Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:57 AM > >> there is a large inheritage of great music that is already in the public >> domain. LilyPond would be a great contender for maintaining publically >> accessible databases of importance. What is needed for that is a >> robustness in the sources: >> >> a) getting serious quality without version-specific tweaks >> b) a dependable upgrade plan when LilyPond advances >> c) good conversion to MusicXML >> d) possibly also good import >> e) good human readability in case machine translation fails for some >> reason >> f) reasonably easy machine readability outside of LilyPond >> >> Maintaining a cultural database in proprietary formats like Finale is a >> recipe for trouble: if at one point company or format or compatibility >> fail, the content becomes inaccessible. This is a big selling point for >> LilyPond, and if it makes progress in some other areas, it will become >> interesting for this sort of task also outside of the public domain >> area. If it becomes commercially viable to reissue classics using a >> public LilyPond database as a starting point, there will be a sizable >> market for LilyPond skills. >> >> But I don't see us there yet, and a good part of my focus is on work >> leading there. > > Would kickstarter be a way of getting started? > > http://www.kickstarter.com/
If one can put together a good roadmap. But in this case, the "let's put up a front for collecting money for David" angle is insufficient. There is a considerable amount of planned work to do by different people. Personally, I am lousy at following plans: I am good at shoveling crap that annoys me at the moment and replacing it with saner things. I am excellent at that, but it is not the whole job. So while I certainly would enjoy working as _part_ of such a plan, we would _definitely_ need more ways to turn money into progress than just myself, or things are doomed to failure. And this also means that we need considerable more funding than a "let's keep David working on LilyPond as he considers fit at the moment because he is such a nice, uh, because he seems to be good at it" fund would require. Of course, the first kind of fund might be a decidedly easier package to sell, but then we also need to think about how we can deliver. I know myself well enough to know that I don't have the self-control to pull this through alone. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
