| You struck a chord there Urs, me being a product manager at a SW company and using Agile!
I will definitely work on that! Giampaolo Orrigo, MBA
Hi Giampaolo,
Am 09.01.2018 um 16:58 schrieb
Giampaolo Orrigo:
I definitely have an idea, although I don’t have the necessary
programming knowledge to mentor, although I have the scholarly
knowledge.
I think the community would greatly benefit if LilyPond had
full support for both white and black mensural notation.
That sounds like a great idea.
There was an effort done some time ago but it was abandoned
and the original author seems unreachable.
Indeed, such things happen (you are talking about Lukas, right?).
Also the initial developer of the lilyJAZZ font has mysteriously
become invisible over time ...
My two cents!
As you have the scholarly knowledge about the topic you could
volunteer as "community mentor" (the new role I outlined in my reply
to Kieren).
What you could do now to make that happen (or at least more likely
to happen) is thinking about a concise project description
(essentially what needs to be there and what is already available)
and do some lobbying to find a primary mentor.
Best
Urs
Giampaolo Orrigo, MBA
Hi all,
I send this to the lilypond-user list because I
think it's the best union of potential readers from
the LilyPond and Frescobaldi communities.
<disclaimer>I have done some work and I will
be available, but I will invest substantially less
energy than in the previous two years to get this on
the way. I really hope there will be sufficient
community engagement or someone taking
responsibility.</disclaimer>
Currently applications for organizations are open
for the Google Summer of Code 2018. LilyPond is
under the umbrella of the GNU Project (as usual),
and I have submitted the application for Frescobaldi
as its own organization. For both organizations'
applications it is important that there are good
project suggestions pages available, Frescobaldi is
an extremely small "organization", and even GNU
can't simply expect to be admitted (last year it was
quite close).
I have started to update the pages
http://lilypond.org/google-summer-of-code.html
https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code
by purging unmaintained projects and adding a few
new ones. Interesting LilyPond projects that don't
have mentors are listed here:
http://lilypond.org/attic.html#Inactive-Google-Summer-of-Code-project-suggestions
In order to attract good students I think we should
have a few more project suggestions on the pages,
and for the applications as organizations it is
really important to have more potential mentors
assigned to projects - I don't think it looks good
that I am listed as mentor for eight out of thirteen
project suggestions. In addition, in recent years it
usually was complicated to eventually distribute
"slots" to projects. Essentially we lost a few
possible slots because we couldn't assign mentors to
projects.
So, I encourage, no, I urge everybody to look into
their souls whether they might volunteer to mentor a
project (not only those listed already but also new
suggestions). But I will not pressure any further
after this email, so if there are no volunteers we
may not be successful with GSoC this year.
Mentoring *is* a responsibility and it *does* take
some time. But after all, it's not that much time,
and it's a quite rewarding responsibility.
Best
Urs
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