Re: ideas for Google Summer of Code

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Jonathan Kulp wrote:

> Anne Ghisla wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 18:58:25 Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> > > > On 1/14/09 8:51 AM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > I think we can be under the umbrella of FSF/GNU.
> > > > Can the mentor be a FSF/GNU mentor, or does there need to be a LilyPond
> > > > mentor?
> > > The mentor can be anyone that is accepted by the project.  GSoC is mostly
> > > a "we know who you are and therefore we trust you" thing.  Even if these
> > > things become rare these days, it is the only way to run something
> > > successful _and_ fun.
> > 
> > fisrt of all: many thanks for your answers, the proposals look great.
> > 
> > If it is possible to be under FSF/GNU umbrella, it could give us better
> > chances for project approval - organisators have already warned future
> > participants that 2009 edition will cont on a reduced budget.
> > 
> > But it worths trying! I'll do my best to become a Frog and start
> > understanding how LilyPond works. 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Anne
> > 
> 
> Pie-in-the-sky idea for summer of code: create working lilypond-to-musicXML
> conversion tool.  At least two of us have also placed a bounty on this :).

And who could/would mentor that?

Besides, the students are supposed to finish in 3 months ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho