Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 02/08/12 15:14, Graham Percival wrote:
> Well, they have the email address of our development mailing list.

... and presumably you have theirs.  Why not be the ones to initiate the 
discussion?

> I've heard this "work together more" idea a few times, but I have
> no clue what that would entail.  What could LilyPond do to make
> GUI front-ends easier to write, better for users, etc?

At _this point_, I think the best thing to do would simply be to say, "Let's 
talk about ways in which we can cooperate to promote free software for music and 
reach out to the abandoned Sibelius community."

More generally than that, I think the reason to discuss is to _discover_ the 
areas where you can cooperate.  There are obvious areas of interaction -- e.g. 
enabling Lilypond output for MuseScore and ensuring that it gets updated 
effectively in response to Lilypond syntax changes.  But you won't know until 
you start talking what the real points of shared interest could be.  Friendly 
social context, both online and preferably also offline, is unlikely to be 
anything other than stimulating.

Even if no actual development overlap takes place, there are still other 
potential areas of cooperation -- infrastructure, project management, 
fundraising, organizing events and demonstrations -- to make it worthwhile.

> What else could we do to "work together"?  (be it with musescore,
> denemo, laborejo, elysium, etc)

Start the conversation first, based around a shared interest in providing 
high-quality free software for music notation.  Then you'll find out.