Music Notation Community Group status

Dear all,

Thanks to everyone for your interest in the Music Notation Community Group! We are up to 164 participants now, making us the 6th largest of the W3C's 221 community groups.

Here is a quick update on our status. Daniel, Joe, and I have been working to get the Community Group resources prepared for starting work. We have been moving our current MusicXML and SMuFL materials into the new W3C GitHub repositories. So far the MusicXML schema (DTDs and XSDs) and the SMuFL specification have been moved over. 

The GitHub issue lists for MusicXML and SMuFL are in progress. Daniel and I are moving our private lists of issues raised by community members to GitHub. These lists will be documented with the historical record of the issue discussion, including examples and references.

We are also still preparing the first version of the Community Group charter. This is in progress, but we are working around vacations and holidays for the co-chairs to get this published to the Community Group site.

I am sending this message out to our public mailing list (public-music-notation@w3.org <mailto:public-music-notation@w3.org>), but we plan to have our future discussion on the contributor mailing list (public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org <mailto:public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org>). This will ensure that contributions are happening from participants who have signed the Contributor License Agreement. We will further discuss the issues around contributions and the CLA in both the charter and future emails.

Daniel has also setup the group Wiki. We propose using this for information that is not specific to MusicXML, SMuFL, or other projects that the group may add over time. Our first example is the contributors page. This page includes photos, names, organizations, GitHub usernames, and areas of interest for all the group participants.

If you are a participant in the group, could you please fill out your row on the Wiki page at https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/wiki/Contributors <https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/wiki/Contributors>? That will help us get to know each other a bit better, without overwhelming the mailing list with hundreds of introductory emails. Instructions are at the top of the Contributors section. We have linked our names to our Twitter accounts. You may want to do the same, or link to your own site.

We will email again when we have this preliminary work completed and are ready to start substantive discussions within the Community Group.

Best regards,
Michael
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Michael Good
VP Research and Development
MakeMusic, Inc.
  
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