I wrote to you separately Chris but I thought I should add publicly that Musopen.org would love to merge the two projects and continue your work. We have a large library of sheet music but I would like to see more of it in open formats such as LilyPond.
If you or any Mutopia volunteers are interested in working with Musopen please shoot me an email at [email protected] Sincerely, Aaron On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Chris Sawer <[email protected]>wrote: > > There are a number of projects out there that aim to store LilyPond > > scores. There certainly isn't anything wrong with IMSLP, but hopefully > > we'll soon have a team to either help maintain Mutopia, either > > organize a new LilyPond library/repository. > > Hi folks, > > Well, I'm still here but unfortunately for the last few months I simply > haven't found time to continue running Mutopia. > > I have run things pretty much on my own for eleven years now and I think > the time has come to hand over to a new team, if people are interested > in continuing Mutopia. > > I think that the idea behind Mutopia was a good one, and I think that > maintaining an archive of LilyPond scores separate from IMSLP is > something that is worth doing. > > So where to we go from here? Perhaps I can invite those interested in > helping to form a new team to contact me (on or off list) and we can > start a discussion as to whether Mutopia should continue as is, whether > it should close, or whether it should be merged into a new project. > > Some things that need to be addressed: > - Many scores use an old version of LilyPond > - Some scores use "old" licenses > - Website is old-fashioned and only available in English > - Website backend/tools are an uneasy mixture of Perl and Java > - Adding and updating files is a very manual process > - Mutopia SVN archive is not publicly accessible > > On the positive side: > - Over 1600 scores in high-quality LilyPond typesetting with source > available > - Almost all scores PD, CC-A or CC-ASA licensed > - People still interested in contributing > > Please do let me know what you think. > > Regards, > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Mutopia-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/mailman/listinfo/mutopia-discuss >
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