Re: long-term goals (was: Lines and Ties and Slurs oh my!)

[Urs Liska]

Am 23.02.2014 13:09, schrieb Janek Warchoł:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-02-15 21:16 GMT+01:00 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
> > 2014-02-15 18:54 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:
> > > I’ve know someone at Carnegie-Mellon University who is well-connected
> > > in the computer and music departments (he is both a composer and a programmer).
> > > I approached him recently with the idea of getting involved with Lilypond.
> > >
> > > He said:
> > >
> > > > One possibility is that sometimes there are software engineering projects
> > > > looking for tasks, so I might be able to point a class project at Lilypond
> > > > in the future.
> > > > I'm curious if there's a short summary of the direction for large-scale work on 
> > > > Lilypond.
> > >
> > > Is there something we can forward to him, so that he can take it to his
> > > department and/or colleagues for consideration? If we could convince
> > > a major university to take on [some or all of the] programming —
> > > for single projects or the whole enchilada — I think it would be
> > > a big boost to the ‘Pond.
> >
> > That would be extremely cool!
> > As for the list of long-term projects, i don't think we have any
> > (which is very bad for the project imo).  I would be happy to write
> > something down if there is at least one other developer interested in
> > reviewing and expanding it.
>
> No volunteers?  :-(
> Kieren, i'm not sure if it's not too late for this, but _maybe_ i'll
> manage to write something down anyway.
>
> best,
> Janek

I didn't want to post that because I'm not ready with it yet, but I 
think I have to comment on this occasion.

I was asked by the head of the "music informatics" (however the correct 
English term would be) department of a University nearby for suggestions 
for projects that could be assigned to students for their bachelor, 
master or PhD thesis'. This will of course be a non-binding list without 
guarantee that anything will be really done. But it _can_ provide nice 
input of man-power.

I will write together a list with projects, but explicitly from my (i.e. 
the musicological) perspective. I already have such a document, but 
that's more a personal sketch.

Maybe it's a good idea to do that in a Wiki of github.com/openlilylib?

Urs