Fwd: Google SoC

[Jeffery Shivers]

Hi everyone,

Please see the forwarded message below. This student (Charles, also
CC'd) is interested in participating in GSoC with LilyPond and has
been trying for a while to subscribe to the list to post this with no
luck so please excuse the lateness.

I guess he can't reply back to lilypond-devel still, but can to
individuals - so, others, please keep that in mind if it looks like
he's not responding. :-)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Winston, Charles R. <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: Google SoC
To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>

Hi LilyPond Team,

I recently received information about LilyPond and the Summer of Code
from Jeffery Shivers, who participated with LilyPond in the past, and
I am extremely interested in applying. I'm a sophomore CS major at
Tufts University, where I am also minoring in Music Engineering and
Mathematics.

I am a passionate musician and programmer, and while I haven't had
experience using LilyPond itself, I have a lot of experience using
similar softwares—I use Sibelius frequently to arrange acapella music,
and I use LaTeX very often for math homework, math research papers,
and other miscellaneous documents; since LilyPond is a LaTeX-like
music engraving program, I wouldn't have trouble picking it up!

I am very excited by this opportunity and wanted to contact you guys
and get in touch! The LilyPond community seems great and I really want
to be a part of it. The projects I am most interested in pursuing are
improving the internal representation of LilyPond chords and improving
the MusicXML importing and exporting functions, but I would be happy
pursuing any of them.

I'd love to hear more about these projects and about LilyPond in
general. I'm looking forward to hearing back from you guys!

Thanks,

Charles Winston