Crowdfunding

Project scope is directly dependent on support provided by backers. Money pledged goes directly to application development, i.e. paying people.

Value goes into the community. Musical heritage gains a presence. No speculation. No hoarding.

Stretch goal achievements reward early backers and are used to track progress against the overall crowdfunding goals, which are laid out below.

This blog documents a paradigm-changing, open-source and speculation-free music visualisation project of potentially profound social value.

For crowdfunding success, we need your direct help in extending our reach. Please use the social media tags liberally - to tweet, email, post and share.

CROWDFUNDING GOALS

Core Crowdfunding Goals

The single, overriding goal of this crowdfunding round is to bring -end to end- all that has been achieved so far online in a robust, reuse-exemplary form.

This will bring what had been deep-dive areas of world music theory directly to the surface, driving cognition, learning, understanding and application.

It will establish a top-to-bottom implementation of a strictly limited feature set acting as template or conceptual framework for all future work, beginning with:

o notation, for the standard classical or western notation system clefs

o one instrument family, that of the lutes

o one theory tool family, that of tone circle

o a coordination mechanism directly linking instrument model and theory tool configuration, and which ensures changes to one are reflected in the other.

o Single Sign-On (LDAP, SAML, LTI, Google Apps, OpenID?), for early access users

This goal will be realised in stages defined by a set of core or initial goals, and a limited range of so-called 'stretch goals'. All listings below act as guidance only, and cannot be considered exhaustive.

Where a goal fails to get financed, or where financing later proves insufficient, repeat funding will be sought.

Key Leveraging Mechanisms

o Generation of Social Value
o Free to first xx contributors
o Free to anyone attracting xx contributions
o Pre-selling (as crowdfunding reward)
o Personal Contact
o Social reinvestment of profit
o Build community, raise awareness and derive learnings for subsequent crowdfunding rounds (securing support according to the so-called 20/30/50 rule)

o Eliminate possible dependency on speculative forms of funding

Detailed Goals

1) top to bottom cleanup of existing code

o update to d3.js V4.0
o full integration of instrument and theory tool classification trees, including direct population of user menus
o backend
o server-side pre-rendering
o restful apis throughout
o initial open source sound library integration
o review / update code to latest standards (es6), paradigms (componentization?) and best practices throughout
o across-the-board homogenization of visualisation interfaces for visual and handling consistency
o optimisation for speed and security
o linked model / theory customisation interface
o Code structure visualisation (as an aid to developers)

2) western / classical notation

o wider / robuster notation capabilities
- the remaining classical clefs
- the accustomed classical keys
- piano style (treble & bass) voicing
- mixed single-and-piano voicings (chamber / orchestral scorings)

3) framework completion

o test framework integration
o logging overhaul
o event handling centralisation
o generic base templates for use in further instrument model and theory tool animations>

4) Documentation and Developer Playground

o api documentation
o developer guides
o usage examples
o licensing
o api descriptions
o animation examples
o simulator (for developer use)

Outcome: open source developers are informed

5) integration support

o continuous delivery plan + infrastructure o open source integration process description
o open source repository online
o simulator launch with api publication
o first community process in place
o first open source contributions accepted

Outcome: open source developers can contribute

6) Initial Working Version Online

o to be continued..

7) p2p score interworking

o p2p synchronisation scenarios
o 3rd party product survey and integration tests
o basic interworking controls

8) Microtonal Notation

o data driven approach to notation fonts
o sagittal + a few alternatives
o Tablatures
o .. etc ..

FURTHER LONG-TERM CROWDFUNDING

For each crowdfunding drive:

for a combination of one instrument model and theory tool:

o modelling of instrument and tool from their generic base
o integration into P2P command framework
o cross-testing against existing instruments, tools, classification hierarchies, data stores and P2P framework