Google Summer of Code starts again! —
Apparently we’ve all made another trip around the sun, because Google’s Summer of Code starts off again today. We’ve applied to be a participating organization again and we’ve put together our ideas page. This page lists the ideas we have for what students can work on over the summer.
However, we find that students who bring [...]
Posted: 2010-03-09 00:25 GMT
Concert listings on MusicBrainz? —
During the last summit we spoke about listing concerts on MusicBrainz artist pages. So far we’ve had three concert listing providers approach us about listing concerts on our artist pages.
I generally hate the idea of advertising and I find the idea of advertising on MusicBrainz as very distasteful. But, being alerted to a concert in [...]
Posted: 2010-03-09 00:08 GMT
MetaBrainz Foundation Annual Report for 2009 —
Introduction
In 2009 MusicBrainz placed a greater emphasis on working on our Next Generation Schema (NGS) and not focusing on business aspects of MusicBrainz as much. This turns out to have been a good strategy as 2009 was a lousy year to do business; the entire world economy was depressed. Many other non-profits had a really [...]
Posted: 2010-03-03 21:00 GMT
LyricWiki and MusicBrainz integration! —
LyricWiki and MusicBrainz are two community-powered sites about music which share some of the same passionate users. LyricWiki contains song lyrics and MusicBrainz contains metadata (detailed info) about music.
As of today, the two projects are going to be able to work together better than ever. Now that LyricWiki has obtained licensing, MusicBrainz can now link [...]
Posted: 2010-02-25 00:16 GMT