Thomas Bonte

This meetup is to connect MuseScore users and developers, and have a hands-on session on all things MuseScore.

MuseScore is music notation software used by millions of musicians worldwide to create, play and print beautiful sheet music. MuseScore is easy to use, yet powerful, and creates professional-looking sheet music. MuseScore is licensed under GNU GPLv2.

MuseScore is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, and is available in 50+ languages. It features an easy to use WYSIWYG editor with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful. It supports unlimited staves with up to four voices each, dynamics, articulations, lyrics, chords, lead sheet notation, import/export of MIDI and MusicXML, export to PDF and WAV, plus online score sharing.

https://musescore.org

"Apple drops GPL apps" was a headline in the Linux User & Developer Magazine in 2011. Later Windows followed the example of Apple. So does this mean GPL licensed apps can't go mobile? Luckily, it's not that dramatic. This talk will share the first hand experience of the challenges and opportunities of releasing GPL based apps in the Apple app store.