Special interest groups

[infojunkie]

While working on roadmap issues, it became clear to me that more often than not, specialized knowledge and focused attention on specific topics would be of great help to push groups of issues forward. I am therefore calling on members of the community to express their interest in forming special interest groups around the following, and other, topics:

• Instrument-specific techniques, typically under the <technical> element. (Ref "instruments" tag).

• Content (text and symbol) appearance, including SMuFL glyphs, text styling, enclosures, etc. (Ref "appearance" tag.)

• Editorial issues surrounding the documentation. (Ref "documentation" tag.)

• What else?

Please comment here with your interests and ideas!

[jsawruk]

I would like to participate in the special interest group for instrument-specific techniques.

[infojunkie]

Hi @jsawruk , thanks! I see you've been interested in this topic for some time, which is great. There are currently 3 issues tagged with "instruments" in the 4.1 milestone. Would you like to pick one and suggest a way forward? You've already commented on pick scrape, so maybe we start with this one.

[johnmichaelplatter]

I have an interest in microtonal notation and could likely loop in a couple other domain experts! Might we consider creating a special interest group related to expressing non-12-equal-divisions-of-the-octave music?

[infojunkie]

Absolutely! I have a personal interest in this topic as well, happy to participate.

[infojunkie]

I've added relevant categories to the discussion area. If needed, we can also create a GitHub project to manage more formal work, but let's start simple for now.