On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 03:02:34PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 02/08/12 14:49, m...@apollinemike.com wrote: > >If you guys can get a Google Grant for your LilyPond non-profit > >in the Netherlands, now would be a fantastic time to run ads on > >Google getting Sibelius users to check out LilyPond. It's sad > >that it takes an event like this to generate interest in open > >source software, but at the same time, it'd be a huge waste of > >money and time if these people tried to somehow revive > >Sibelius.
Wouldn't a google grant be better put towards making lilypond better? Like, having a stable release or fixing graphical collisions? > On a practical level, it's likely that many Sibelius users will just > not want to switch to a tool like Lilypond -- the whole point of > Sibelius is a graphical score editor. MuseScore is a more natural > home for them, and is probably the only free tool they'd consider. There's actually a few other projects mentioned in the latest LilyPond Report (which doesn't seem to be advertising itself on the user list any more? let alone on the main lilypond website?) that could also occupy this niche. (slight re-arrangement) > To be honest, I think this is a point where Lilypond and MuseScore > people ought to get together and plan a collective response. > > Working together to present the two leading faces of free music > engraving software could help to get the most possible interest and > engagement. Well, they have the email address of our development mailing list. I've heard this "work together more" idea a few times, but I have no clue what that would entail. What could LilyPond do to make GUI front-ends easier to write, better for users, etc? - faster compiling? that's already a good goal, and has nothing to do with GUIs specifically. We could *all* appreciate a faster compile without sacrificing beauty, and many people would also appreciate the ability to choose an even faster compile at the expense of some beauty. The code is there, the previous discussions are there on -devel; nothing's stopping people from working on this! (other than the poor state of the Contributor's Guide, but that's also a general problem with lilypond, nothing specific to GUIs) - stable syntax? it would certainly be a pain to maintain a front-end that has to create different ly files based on which version the user has installed. But a stable syntax is another non-GUI-specific good thing, and we're already very seriously planning work on this on -devel. - have a big link-exchange on our websites? - ...? What else could we do to "work together"? (be it with musescore, denemo, laborejo, elysium, etc) - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
