[MEI-L] next steps

[Johannes Kepper]

Hello all,

as Daniel was faster than me (but he didn't mention http://wiki.mei-c.org 
) the only remaining things to write for me are concerning with our  
next steps. These are just a suggestion and open for discussion. I'm  
certainly not the one to set the rules for anything, so feel free to  
disagree…

Hopefully, we'll get this grant from the DFG/NEH. In that case we will  
meet again in this year's summer (and perhaps there is a way to get  
Raffaele in the group), and have a second meeting in the first half of  
2010. From my perspective, we should have an official release of MEI  
1.0 at the end of this second  meeting. The meetings are (at least  
partially) meant for trying to encode actual musical examples, which  
means that we need to have a stable version much earlier. As we all  
basically agree on using ODD (do we?), I think that Raffaele's  
generous offer to spend some time on the transfer will really help us.  
Daniel and me will help as much as we can, but we cannot promise too  
much at the moment. It would be a great step if we could have the  
current MEI version ODDified till the first meeting of the project. We  
will hear about the success of our application probably at the end of  
April. If we're not funded, I guess we'll have to do the work without  
this kind of support. In that case we'd have a much smaller group of  
scholars, basically being the ones that are currently on this list.


Therefore I suggest: Perry switches to Laurent's SVN for further  
changes on the DTDs. There have to be no unversioned changes anymore.  
Raffaele takes responsibility for the transition to ODD. He uses only  
the DTDs from the SVN, and only after making sure that Perry will not  
work on these DTDs until the transition is complete. Daniel and  
Johannes will be directed by Raffaele. Laurent and Johannes (and  
perhaps Raffaele with his Syrinx example) will try to encode some  
examples to detect problems and get material for interchange…

Is this reasonable in your eyes?


The initiative with Ted seems to be a separate development branch of  
MEI in my eyes, which should not keep us from working on the current  
release. Right?


It was a pleasure to meet all of you at Dagstuhl, and I'm sure that we  
can achieve quite a lot if we stay that productive. Thanks for your  
participance!!!
Johannes