[nabs-l] Fwd: MuseScore accessibility & Google Summer of Code

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
For all musicians and all computer programmers. This would be a 
fantastic opportunity to work at google while making a new program 
accessible!
Thanks,



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Subject: 	[Menvi-discuss] MuseScore accessibility & Google Summer of Code
Date: 	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:31:57 -0800 (PST)
From: 	Marc Sabatella <marcsabatella at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	This is for discussing music and braille literacy 
<menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
To: 	This is for discussing music and braille literacy 
<menvi-discuss at menvi.org>



MuseScore -- the open source notation program -- has been selected by 
Google as one of the mentoring organizations to participate in the 
Google Summer of Code 2014. In this program, students are be paid to 
work on an open source project. Students can choose what they want 
aspect of the project to work on, but a list of sample ideas is provided 
by the mentoring organization Improving accessibility is the #1 
suggestion on the short list offered by MuseScore in their list of ideas 
<http://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/google-summer-code/ideas-2014#Accessibility-for-Visually-Impaired-Musicians>).

Having the leading open source notation program be truly accessible 
would be a major breakthrough for blind musicians -- particularly 
composers and arrangers. As a technical contributor to MuseScore myself, 
I am familiar enough with the code to have a pretty good sense of what 
is involved and am willing to serve as a mentor.  I have already 
identified a list of specific issues 
<http://accessiblemusicnotation.wordpress.com/working-documents/musescore-accessibility/> to 
address in making MuseScore accessible. If others have other issues they 
would like to see added to this list, let me know.

So if there are any students out there interested in improving the 
accessibility of MuseScore, this would be a perfect time to get 
involved! Google is accepting student applications next month. For more 
information, see the Google Summer of Code web site 
<https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014>. Feel 
free to contact me <mailto:marc at outsideshore.com> specifically about 
this, or join the chat on the #musescore channel on the IRC network 
freenode.

Please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested!


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Marc Sabatella


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