Re: (hypothetical) Availability of LilyPond engravers

[Caio Giovaneti de Barros]

On 16-04-2015 21:31, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 17.04.2015 um 02:16 schrieb Jay Anderson:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > If I should be asked to engrave a big score (as fast as possible) in a
> > > commercial context and wouldn't want to reply "well, I will ask 
> > > around and
> > > see how many people I can get together", what could I say? Would it be
> > > realistic to say that we could (at any time) provide a team of 10 
> > > quailfied
> > > engravers working full time on a project? Or 15-20 working half time?
> > > And what if it were a request for continuous work? Is it realistic 
> > > to say
> > > there are always enough engravers at hand to accept work?
> > Considering the public responses there seems to be quite a few people
> > qualified and able. We'll see if you get 20 responses. The liedboek
> > team did sometime similar. They may have good insights.
> >
> > > I feel that one aspect that makes publishers hesitate to consider 
> > > LilyPond
> > > is exactly this question: They know that there will always be a 
> > > sufficient
> > > number of available and qualified Finale and Sibelius users, and 
> > > presumably
> > > even Score users, but they don't have an idea about this with LilyPond.
> > >
> > > Any opinions or estimates?
> > Sounds like a great idea. I'd be very willing, though I most likely
> > wouldn't be able to work full time.
> >
> > ----Jay
>
> Hey all,
>
> thank you for your responses, I won't reply to all of them individually.
> Just to make this clear: The question _is_ hypothetical. But I am 
> really interested in getting an impression about how powerful our 
> community is when it comes to providing professional service.
>
> The question I had to answer today (or to find a way around answering 
> honestl) is: "If we (hypothetically) commissioned you to produce a 
> large opera in publication quality and with a tight schedule, would 
> LilyPond be able to cope with that, and would you be able to provide 
> the appropriate manpower and experience so we can be comfortably 
> expect delivery and quality?"
>
> This made me think of that question. It would be a sad irony if we 
> wouldn't be able to provide that - not because of deficiencies of our 
> software but simply because to lack of the right number of users.
>
> Urs
To be honest working on engraving music would be a dream to me, but 
since I'm always in need of money to survive and this is somenthing that 
don't make enough of it, is a thing I do mostly with my own music and 
ocasionally for other people in my free time. I'm currently employed so 
I would only agree to join such a team if it were something more or less 
permanent.

I also don't know exactly If I'm qualified, since I don't know exactly 
what skills would be needed in such a commission. I've already done 
large (orchestral) and small scores on Lilypond and got paid to do it. 
Normally I engrave music from live composers, which, in my experience, 
means at least some bits of non-traditional notation. I'm currently 
working (in my spare time) in engraving small snippets to illustrate 
itens in a scientific experiment.

Caio