[LAD] Open-source Band-in-a-Box replacement

No, not the umpteenth person looking for one. I want to actually set out to try and build one. I'm still in the early stages of scoping, architecturing and prototyping (read: not ready to share anything yet), but still there's a few questions I would like to get feedback on: 1) Would there be any demand for such an open source initiative at all, or is everyone seriously needing this type of application using The Real Thing anyway? 2) Would anyone be interested in collaborating? The core and GUI code are not really suitable for collaborative development (yet), and anyway not the real issue (although I'm open to any suggestion and/or wishes regarding the user experience). What the project _does_ need however in order to get serious at some point, is a lot of brains put into the actual music creation routines, which I'm designing from the start to be easily contributed to. It's in Java and I'm trying to put in as much convenience methods as possible, so a lot of programming know-how is not really necessary to contribute. What I'd rather need is people with a lot of musical know-how, like voicing theory or in-depth style knowledge, and just enough formal thinking to be able to put their ideas into some form of algorithms (if Java is a problem I'm willing to accept any for of pseudo-code as well...). 3) Is this the right place to ask? (Probably should have put this as 1)...). Seriously, if you have any suggestions where else I might put this up, please let me know as well. If there are some 'yes's out there, I'll be happy to post more information. Cheers Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.