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Submission + - "Open Well-Tempered Clavier" Project Completes: Score and Recording Online (welltemperedclavier.org)

Submitted by rDouglass on Thursday March 19, 2015 @09:18AM

rDouglass writes: Open source music notation software MuseScore, and pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, have completed the Open Well-Tempered Clavier project and released a new studio recording and digital score online, under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0, public domain) license. Their previous project, the Open Goldberg Variations (2012), has shown its cultural significance by greatly enhancing the Wikipedia.org article on J.S. Bach's work, and by making great progress in supplying musical scores that are accessible to the visually impaired and the blind. The recording has also received very positive early reviews by music critics. Over 900 fans of J.S. Bach financed this project on Kickstarter.com, where a total of $44,083 was raised.

Comment Why don't you apply to Acquia (Score 1) 523

by VisualVoice on Monday November 28, 2011 @05:39PM (#38195110) Attached to: How Does a Self-Taught Computer Geek Get Hired?

We have a huge need to hire a ton of Drupal folks w/LAMP experience. Apply online here http://www.acquia.com/careers

Submission + - 10,000 commits to an open-source project (twitter.com)

Submitted by

tgeller

on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @01:49PM

tgeller writes: "British web designer Jonathan Brown tweeted that Drupal creator Dries Buytaert has surpassed 10,000 commits to the open-source content-management system he created ten years ago, Drupal. In a private email, Dries said "I'm mostly committing other people's patches: Credit really goes to the community at large". Still, it's rare for individual to log that many commits. Can anyone claim more?"

Comment This is a good thing for open source applications (Score 1, Informative) 133

by VisualVoice on Monday March 23, 2009 @05:51PM (#27304293) Attached to: Microsoft Launches Free Web Software Eco-System

Disclaimer: I work for http://acquia.com/ , and we provide commercial support and network services for the open-source Drupal CMS. Over several weeks, we worked with Microsoft to make sure Drupal would be well represented in the Windows Application Gallery to provide IIS users access to an easy to use Drupal installation. The result is here http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/AcquiaDrupal.aspx We already provide Drupal Windows and Mac stack installers for Apache at http://acquia.com/downloads and so this was a natural extension of our mission to increase Drupal usage. Overall it was a positive experience and a way for us to ensure that the Drupal market continues to grow by supporting end-users who are committed to Microsoft's IIS and can't or prefer not use Apache. Microsoft of course also is motivated to ensure IIS is a great platform for any application, so we see this as a win-win. If you'd like to learn more, our CTO Dries Buytaert wrote about it when the Windows Application Gallery launched at http://buytaert.net/microsoft-promoting-drupal

Comment Re:What is better? (Score 1) 240

by VisualVoice on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @10:55PM (#27144991) Attached to: Open Source Usability — Joomla! Vs. WordPress

If you are new to Drupal, and want the fastest way to evaluate it, download and install Acquia Drupal in 5 min. Acquia Drupal is the same open source Drupal you can get on Drupal.org, but packaged with the most popular modules (so you don't have to figure out which of the 2000+ modules on drupal.org to start with), some network services including faceted search like you see on amazon, and a Mac or Windows stack installer for those who would prefer not to configure an xAMP stack for Drupal (or if you have a stack and there is a tarball too). Free download at http://acquia.com/downloads Full disclosure, I work @ Acquia.

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