A LilyPond Café in Paris

[Valentin Villenave]

Greetings everybody,

just to let you know that a French contributor, Mathieu Demange, has
managed to put together a LilyPond event tomorrow in Paris:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user-fr/2019-02/msg00178.html

We’re hoping that it can turn into a regular event; at the very least
the location that’ll be hosting it is quite enthusiastic and willing
to help us make it so. (It’s taking place at the Musical Library in
Forum des Halles, dead center of Paris where all subway and train
lines converge. Which is to say, no one could ever dream a more
suitable place.)

Quite a bunch of French-speaking users and contributors are expected
to attend; among others, long-time developer John Mandereau is said to
drop by, as well as Pierre Perol-Schneider who’s also active on
English-speaking lists, and many others (among whom yours truly).
Offered as a "free buffet" from 3 to 6pm, this event welcomes both
hardcore LilyPonders doing quite complicated things, as well as mere
beginners or simply curious people interested either in music or nifty
pieces of Free software (ideally in both). There should be some short
lectures, as well as more informal exchanges, Q.&A. sessions, demos,
tutorials and so on.

I’ll let you know how it went, but hopefully this can set a precedent
and possibly provide some kind of a roadmap for other people to
organize similar events elsewhere in France and other countries!

Cheers,
V.