Co-chair Meeting Minutes: April 28, 2020 [via Music Notation Community Group]

MNX-Common and MNX-Generic



As part of the preparation for this week's Community Group meeting, the co-chairs discussed the naming of MNX-Common and MNX-Generic. The naming is becoming more important with the project about to enter another pivotal phase.



The MNX naming scheme was proposed by former co-chair Joe Berkovitz when a key part of the plans was the notion that MNX would be a container format for a variety of symbolic music representation formats. Current co-chair Adrian pointed out the practical problems with this approach: developers and users alike would not know in advance whether a particular MNX file could be used with their application or contained the expected kind of data.



Consequently we agreed to go forward with MNX-Common and MNX-Generic, with the expectation that any further variants in the MNX family would have their own suffix. But this approach is somewhat clumsy, and the co-chairs will propose a new naming scheme at Thursday's meeting.



MNX-Common will become simply MNX, while MNX-Generic will become MGX. There is no particular reason to define these abbreviations, but we can take the "MN" in "MNX" to stand for "Music Notation" and the "MG" in "MGX" to stand for "Music Generic".



Community Group members will have an opportunity to respond to this proposal in Thursday's Community Group meeting.



Community meeting preparation



The majority of the meeting was spent in reviewing the presentation planned for this Thursday's Community Group meeting. If you wish to attend but have not yet signed up, there is still time, but you must sign up in advance so that you can be sent the Zoom meeting ID. Complete the sign-up form here.



Next meeting



The next meeting will be the Community Group meeting this Thursday, 30 April, and the next co-chair meeting will be on Tuesday 12 May.



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