Re: Google Summer of Code 2015

[Urs Liska]

Am 05.03.2015 um 06:27 schrieb Paul Morris:
> Hi David,
>
> Glad you're interested in working on LilyPond for GSoC!
>
> I looked into Google's rules[1] and even though LilyPond is not one of the
> accepted mentoring organizations (the deadline has passed for that) the GNU
> project is.[2]  Since LilyPond is part of the GNU project, a LilyPond GSoC
> project could be sponsored by GNU as the organization (and that might be the
> best arrangement in any case).
>
> Also, it seems that students can propose any project, even projects that are
> not listed on an organization's official "ideas list."[3]  It just needs to
> be a project that both the student and the organization are interested in
> pursuing.
>
> So... the questions are: can we get you set up with a mentor and a project,
> and is GNU open to considering a LilyPond project.  As I understand it, GNU
> will be awarded some unspecified number of students that they get to take
> on, and then they get to choose from the successful student applications
> (out of the students who applied to work with GNU).
>
> -Paul

Regargding the list of projects:

Improving Tie formatting is an issue we'd need very much. Janek Warchoł 
has done quite some preparations for it, but it has been argued the 
project weren't appropriately shaped/sized for a GSoC project (no final 
decision about it yet).

Working with importing/exporting XML is also a very important thing as 
it relates to the way LilyPond interacts with the wider musical world. 
There actually _is_ development going on here, so this might be a quite 
natural place to integrate in existing work (-> mentoring). Development 
is done in the context of Frescobaldi and the python-ly package. It has 
become much more than simply improving the existing musicxml2ly script, 
and it may become an important extension if they/we manage to get a 
reliable transformation from LilyPond documents to and from XML documents.
MusicXML is only one part of the game, though. We're talking about 
generic XML now and particularly an interface to MEI 
(http://music-encoding.org).
It would be cool if he had something to mention at the Music Encoding 
Conference in Florence, where we'll present the current state of affairs 
with LilyPond to the international community of Digital Editions :-)

Please feel free to ask more.
It would be a pity to miss a chance for a GSoC project

Urs

> [1]
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page
> [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html
> [3] https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2015.html
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