GSoC applications: mkvideo

2018-01-18 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Urs Liska >> To: Carlo Stemberger >> Cc: lilypond-user >> Subject: Re: GSoC applications > > Trying to kick off this conversation about the possibility of a GSoC project around video, starting with Knut Peter

Re: GSoC applications

2018-01-14 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15. Januar 2018 00:28:00 MEZ schrieb Kieren MacMillan : >Hi Urs, > >> Are you sure that this was really listed as GSoC project? > >https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2012/orgs/gnu/projects/janek_warchol.html > >?? This is not from the Lily Pond website. I assume Janek suggested a pr

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2018-01-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > Are you sure that this was really listed as GSoC project? https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2012/orgs/gnu/projects/janek_warchol.html ?? > I agree that this looks like a great GSoC project. However, to see it listed > on the GSoC page you should lobby for someone volunteeri

Re: GSoC applications

2018-01-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Kieren, Am 13.01.2018 um 21:15 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, In theory the answer is simple: A good project for GSoC is something a student can achieve with three months of full-time work. Not more, but also not less. Generally, for larger projects it's beneficial if it can be somehow

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2018-01-14 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Elaine, Am 13. Januar 2018 23:30:16 MEZ schrieb Flaming Hakama by Elaine : >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Urs Liska >> To: Carlo Stemberger >> Cc: lilypond-user >> Subject: Re: GSoC applications >> >> ... >> >>

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2018-01-13 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Urs Liska > To: Carlo Stemberger > Cc: lilypond-user > Subject: Re: GSoC applications > > ... > > Am 09.01.2018 um 19:36 schrieb Karlin High: > > I'm partial to Knut Petersen's video score features. Th

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2018-01-13 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > In theory the answer is simple: A good project for GSoC is something a > student can achieve with three months of full-time work. Not more, but also > not less. > Generally, for larger projects it's beneficial if it can be somehow > modularized, i.e. it should not be one monolithic fe

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2018-01-09 Thread Thomas Morley
2018-01-09 21:56 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska : > Also the > initial developer of the lilyJAZZ font has mysteriously become invisible > over time ... He's back. https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/3653/#def8/01cc https://lilypondforum.de/index.php/topic,194.msg1374.html#msg1374 Cheers, Har

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2018-01-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.01.2018 um 22:50 schrieb Karlin High: On 1/9/2018 2:53 PM, Urs Liska wrote: On https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/GSoC-Guidelines#user-content-community-mentors I outlined a new inofficial GSoC role that I would like to install for this year: Community Mentors. I think you're

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2018-01-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.01.2018 um 22:49 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, In order to attract good students I think we should have a few more project suggestions on the pages I'm never at a loss for ideas… ;) My question is, how much of a full "project" does this need to be, as opposed to just a "fairly

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2018-01-09 Thread Karlin High
On 1/9/2018 2:53 PM, Urs Liska wrote: On https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/GSoC-Guidelines#user-content-community-mentors I outlined a new inofficial GSoC role that I would like to install for this year: Community Mentors. I think you're on to something here, Urs. I was thinking over

Re: GSoC applications

2018-01-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > In order to attract good students I think we should have a few more project > suggestions on the pages I'm never at a loss for ideas… ;) My question is, how much of a full "project" does this need to be, as opposed to just a "fairly rich feature request"? For example, would the abil

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2018-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 09.01.2018 um 22:26 schrieb David Kastrup: >> Urs Liska writes: >> >>> Hi Giampaolo, >>> >>> >>> Am 09.01.2018 um 16:58 schrieb Giampaolo Orrigo: I definitely have an idea, although I don’t have the necessary programming knowledge to mentor, although I have the s

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2018-01-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.01.2018 um 22:26 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: Hi Giampaolo, Am 09.01.2018 um 16:58 schrieb Giampaolo Orrigo: I definitely have an idea, although I don’t have the necessary programming knowledge to mentor, although I have the scholarly knowledge. I think the community wou

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2018-01-09 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Hi Giampaolo, > > > Am 09.01.2018 um 16:58 schrieb Giampaolo Orrigo: >> I definitely have an idea, although I don’t have the necessary >> programming knowledge to mentor, although I have the scholarly >> knowledge. >> I think the community would greatly benefit if LilyPond had

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2018-01-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, >>> Any ideas you can think of that don’t require C++ or Scheme? > I assume this does *not* mean "gimme some Python"? :-/ Ha! Java, maybe (after some skill-dusting). > Your question gave me some food for thought, and I came up with an idea that > might turn out to become a brilliant mov

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2018-01-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.01.2018 um 15:05 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi Urs, I encourage, no, I urge everybody to look into their souls whether they might volunteer to mentor a project (not only those listed already but also new suggestions). Any ideas you can think of that don’t require C++ or Scheme? I as

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2018-01-09 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, Am 09.01.2018 um 17:33 schrieb Carlo Stemberger: Hi, 2018-01-09 9:15 GMT+01:00 >: it is important that there are good project suggestions pages available What do you think about including a project concerning video outputs? This discussion might b

Re: GSoC applications

2018-01-09 Thread Karlin High
On 1/9/2018 10:33 AM, Carlo Stemberger wrote: What do you think about including a project concerning video outputs? I'm partial to Knut Petersen's video score features. There was once a mention of combining these two projects somehow. However, think of all the dependencies that video-generat

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2018-01-09 Thread Carlo Stemberger
Hi, 2018-01-09 9:15 GMT+01:00 : > it is important that there are good project suggestions pages available > What do you think about including a project concerning video outputs? This discussion might be a good start: https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video/issues/67 Best regards, Carlo ___

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2018-01-09 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Urs, > I encourage, no, I urge everybody to look into their souls whether they might > volunteer to mentor a project (not only those listed already but also new > suggestions). Any ideas you can think of that don’t require C++ or Scheme? I’d be happy to consider them… Thanks, Kieren. __