Fwd: GSoC Idea based on Kmid

[Valentin Rusu]

Hello All,

Here is the original posting of a student, named Roshan Vidyashankar,
wiling to build some music notation software based on kmid.
Basically, he wants to add musical notation (tablature) view with
realtime highlighting of the notes as they are playing.
I attach his specification. He submitted it also here :
http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/roshanvid/1001
(I don't have access to this link)

I'm wiling to mentorship this project, as I'm now a regular KDE user and
developer. I'm currently participating to the new ksecretservice project
(https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/ksecretservice). I
intend putting more and more time in KDE development and as such I
registered for the Randa Sprint. However, I'm quite busy in my "real"
wife, as Software Architect and as a two children father :-)

As Roshan, I'm also playing guitar and have good music notation
background so I may really help Roshan. I think KDE needs a good
tablature viewing software and we should definitely accept this project.

Cheers,
Valentin

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	GSoC Idea based on Kmid
Date: 	Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:23:57 +0500
From: 	c0smikdebris <csmikdebris at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	For discussion of multimedia (sound/video) issues under KDE
<kde-multimedia at kde.org>
To: 	kde-multimedia at kde.org



Hey

I'd like to propose a project base on kmid2 for GSoC 2011
(http://kmid2.sourceforge.net/). The core idea is to help guitar players
use kmid by adding a guitar tabulature viewer along with a music score
viewer. In both cases, kmid should be able to highlight the current
playing position, synced to the music. 

A lot of guitar tabulature is in the form of Guitar Pro/Power Tab files.
I would like to implement support for reading these formats. I have also
considered incorporating OCS in some way to allow sharing/collaboration
on MIDI files. I'm sure a lot of musicians would benefit from these
enhancements. 

What do you think about this idea? Please mail me if you are interested
in mentoring this project or if you have any suggestions.

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