Re: User survey? (Graham Percival)
Maurits Lamers wrote: . There was recently a proposal to create a mini online tutorial for the lilypond application Err, sorry, I should clarify that this online is the 1980s definition of online -- meaning as part of the program. Think of the tutorials in many computer games. I realize this was a very confusing usage of the term, and I have honestly no idea why I wrote it that badly. I have written a small tutorial for first year music technology students (in Dutch, link: http://kmt.hku.nl/~maurits/doku.php?id=lilypond:start ). We already have a tutorial, so this is of limited use -- the problem is directing new users to *a* tutorial, not the specific tutorial. I really can't recall any recent questions that were answered in our tutorial -- people either don't realize that lilypond has a GUI (hence my comment about integrated tutorial inside the lilypond app), or their questions are much more advanced. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
User survey?
I was wondering: has there ever been a user survey for Lilypond users? What made me think about this is the current work on the documentation, but I suppose it might be interesting for other purposes too. - How many users are there? - how many of the users are only/primarily musicians, and how many are programmers who also write music? - How many use windows/mac/linux? - How do they use the docs? - Which parts of the docs are they most happy/dissatisfied with? - How many have ever used scheme code in their scores (beyond the simplest almost standard LP syntax like ##t)? - How many have written a scheme function themselves? - What kind of music do they write? which parts of LP are most used? - and which parts are most in need of extensions/simplifications? Things like this. I imagine it could be done as a running survey with a link from the front page, or something like that. Has this been done before? is there any interest in doing it now? Eyolf -- Darth Vader: The Force is strong with this one. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: User survey?
Eyolf Østrem wrote: I was wondering: has there ever been a user survey for Lilypond users? What made me think about this is the current work on the documentation, I can't see this being useful for the doc work. We've already reduced the scope of GDP fourfold. At the current level of participation, we might not even meet the vastly reduced goals I set for the end of 2007. (1 section per week? that seems optimistic to me, given that we've only really covered two sections so far) I detest discussion potential new features if there's absolutely no hope of their being implemented -- either on the programming side, or on the doc side. There was recently a proposal to create a mini online tutorial for the lilypond application -- something that would walk through users compiling and viewing their first score. Sure, that would be useful... and would simplify the doc tutorial. But we don't have the programming resources, so any further discussion is a waste of time. I take a similar view on the docs. It's not like we're sitting around waiting for something to do; there's a huge set of TODOs on the GDP site. Cheers, - Graham ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
