 Yes, I'm talking about new score and I'm just Want to do a quick polling are there new score users in the room? Whoa, is it oh, I didn't expect that I thought it would be no actually I thought I would be addressing developers and Recreating developers but actually users it's that's that's just great. Okay So this is new score. It's an open-source music notation program This is what it looks like for people who are not aware and this is sheet music so we can create this and then You just stop playing from it. That's it Right What is new score? new score is a program to write sheet music with and above all it's a busy week editor So there are lots of other Yeah music notation programs out there But this one is a true busy week which makes it which makes it extremely simple to make sheet music with Second it's it's quite fast In order to add your notes and you can do it for by the mouse also keyboard and as well with MIDI So when the latest 0.9.4 version which was released two days ago the MIDI Import for Windows was being added to it. It used to be on Linux already but now on Windows as well and We are also seeking for developers for extending the MIDI import functionality Then next there is also an integrated sequence in there Also very good import export of music smell as well as MIDI of course This needs extra work as well But I'll come back to that later It's also a platform independent. It's written on Qt or cute Which means we should be able to build it for Linux Windows and Macintosh with ease But the Macintosh one is right now is still giving us problems because of a font issue The model thing is it's been translated to 12 languages, which is really great The last six languages has been added in in just four or five months time So it's it's really getting a lot of adoption right now and then last but not least it's a GP our license it Now a little bit of the history it all starts in 2002 by a certain Person called to what an issue it and he's right here on the first time he's sitting there So if you want to speak with him later on you can you can go ahead? He started this in 2002 as a spinoff of news, which is a midi sequencer now initially was on only for Linux and The port was only available at the end of 2007 also by the end of 2007 the 0.9 release was being made and since then it was Stable and quite usable just for end users who were just looking for a good notation program So by that time we had around 50 diamonds per day Which wasn't bad? Knowing that there was zero marketing around it then in 2008 in September we launched a musco.org website which was quite a milestone because At that point we just Made a step from 50 diamonds per day to 200 dollars per day And I was quite a step forward because lots of people were coming or look newcomers new users and on the website people will find books and so on and that Speed up the development post Development cycle a lot. So that was really great. And then just two days ago the final version 0.9.4 was being released and we are right now at 600 dollars per day, which is really exciting But it should be much more normally in the future So this is what it looked like in 2008 as you can see we had a tipping point there at the end of September and Normally in 2009 we should be Going over let's say 20 30 even perhaps 40,000 dollars per month Which would be really really great Now what do people say right now about Musco about the current states the top one is a teacher Joseph Pisano and As a teacher he used to use Finale more specifically is finale nopats, which is the free version of it It was a free version because in September the finale people decided to Make the next release of finale nopat none free and People have to pay right now ten dollars now ten dollars is enough for just people who are looking for a sheet music program in order to look for an alternative and Just at that moment Musco was it was ready for my prime time but just for those users to accept him and therefore we were just at the right time and he Was really delighted when he found Musco And as you can read He will be Promoting it to his students as well. Now the second one he was mainly looking at the quality output and for lots of you will probably know Lidipont, which is also a score type setter program for on Linux as well as Windows and Mac And Lidipont users are used to the high-quality outputs of Lidipont Now since Musco uses the same font and also some of the same basic principles of formatting the score Musco looks great as well the third one the third one he was looking for a program which was easy to use and Look he was he used to be serious user CBS is the number one music notation program on the market and Due to the easy handling of Musco, he moved over to CBS as sorry to Musco, which is great now We do have some development challenges first of all the meeting I Talked about it. So at the beginning now the meeting is Right now just simple imports. It doesn't know anything about Real-time imports. So it's it's like you import By using your keyboard as well as I still have to put in the time and so on so which makes it a little bit It's usable, but it can be a host a lot. So if there are people here who are used to write MIDI software or whatever just contact one of those. I'm not the midi guy and Just can't touch with him. Now also the playback can be improved a lot at this moment lots of Musical data is not taken into account to play the score as it should and Another big important thing would be extra features for guitar players So footboards and and tapstaffs can be supported as well, of course also some more help on the music xml import and export This is really important because if you want to convert users from finale or CBLS to writes Musco you have to be able to Take your catalog or your sheet music collection with you as well and therefore music xml input and output is really important So the conversion of their files from CBLS or finale can go as smooth as possible and Musco music xml right now is the standard for for doing this and then last but not least there is also Lots of talk on the mailing list coming on about More funds, so right now Musco uses the Feta font also used by Lulepont, but it's the only font available So we are missing support for other funds funds Just funds and so on there are some funds available mainly Copyrighted funds, which means you can only use them for personal use. They cannot be distributed So we are looking for a fund wizard here who knows how to make a jazz Font or something similar So if you if you are that wizard or you know someone Please contact me because just funds is is really really much requested by by many users and Might also again attract users from CBLS and finale towards Musco now a last thing which I added it's not actually connected with the Development challenges is more regarding marketing or promotion next week I'm going to meet 40 students who are Graphic students or how do you call it artwork? Designers and they will help Musco to create a set of artwork starting with the logo and the house styling and Icons within Musco the splash screen and so on also banners for promotional purposes and we would like to do this and while fixing or adding the new features and then Have it ready for Musco 1.0 with this rebranding We hope that Musco will have quite professional look and convince new users to start using a new score This rebranding effort will also be some kind of an open design Projects, so if you are going to Musco starting from I've been in two weeks or something you will see posts concerning logos and how style and so on and It's it's a purpose that the community is is getting involved and getting Votes for instance for all the local proposal proposals because there will be 40 students So there will be lots of proposals and it will be fun to figure out with you guys what would be the nicest logo for us when we release Musco 1.0 now the top challenge right now is still is the Release of the Macintosh version We have a cute issue problem with the Feta font. I talked with Werner this afternoon and He has some idea on how to fix this Normally at this moment as we see it it's a cute problem, but we might circumvent it by Just pulling out the font out of the distribution because right now it's baked in We might put it out and put it on the file system as an external font and that might Just be the start of a solution for this if you're a cute developer yourself And you might be aware on how funds work or whatever you can also visit this This URL and kick in Because right now the biggest asked feature is Musco from Macintosh lots of people or Musicians worldwide use Macintosh Apple and therefore It's one of the the biggest to cast it features and we will probably Be waiting for the Mac release before a 1.0 The the reason is quite simple if we do mainly worldwide to our music schools Then and we are missing the Macintosh version. Then it's it's quite hard for people I probably lots of people will will just Draw back and and not get involved into a bit new score. So this is our top terms for the moments Now if you want to follow Musco and lots of you do already then there's the website There's also the Twitter channel and the Twitter channel. You can follow the daily developments if there are any Because the government group isn't that big so it's it's updated Every two days three days and better that and it will tell you about new Pre-releases on Windows and so on so you can grab them and and check it out of yourself and check for the bug fixes then also delicious is being used a lot by us because we Bookmark all the blocks and all the reviews we find on new score. So if you are looking for Let's say Some information about new score. Not only can you find it on the website itself, but also on the delicious Bookmark page where you can find all kind of bookmarks for all kind of languages About blog posts where muskers being featured in and then of course the Facebook group or page So connect with us Come to the website just any problem you have any crush you have something else Try to define the steps. It's as easy as possible. So we can reproduce it and I'll write a fix fix real fast and then Release another pre-release so you can get a much more stable version of Musco. That's it. Yeah No I know about Jean-Pou, which is the Chinese numbers or cypher to the music notation with this handy one Or Indian one. Okay. Okay. That's a question for Ramesh. He's coming over from news So he should be able to answer that after the the talk probably Some other questions that I guess it will be over in 30 seconds