# About &frescobaldi;

&frescobaldi; is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 – 1643), an Italian organist and composer.

&frescobaldi;'s homepage is at www.frescobaldi.org and there is a mailinglist at frescobaldi@googlegroups.com (more info).

## Credits

The following people have contributed to &frescobaldi;:

Main author, core developer and Dutch translation:

  Wilbert Berendsen (www.wilbertberendsen.nl)

French translation:

  Valentin Villenave (valentin.villenave.info)

  Yann Collette

  David Bouriaud

  Ryan Kavanagh

Turkish translation:

  Server ACİM (acim.name.tr)

Spanish translation:

  Francisco Vila (www.paconet.org)

Russian translation:

  Sergey Poltavski

  Artem Zolochevskiy

Italian translation:

  Gianluca D'Orazio

German translation:

  Henrik Evers

  Georg Hennig

Czech translation:

  Pavel Fric

Polish translation:

  Piotr Komorowski

Galician translation:

  Manuel A. Vázquez

## License

&underFDL; &underGPL;

## Contributing

&frescobaldi; is a Free Software project to create a user friendly &lilypond; music score editor. &frescobaldi; is written in Python and uses the KDE4 libraries as a foundation. The goal is to make &frescobaldi; available on all platforms supported by KDE.

&frescobaldi; is developed in a public GoogleCode SVN repository at lilykde.googlecode.com. There you can browse or checkout the source code and report bugs and wishes.

You can contribute by simply using &frescobaldi; and reporting bugs and suggestions. Translations are also very welcome. How to create new translations is described in the `README-translations` in the `po` directory in the source distribution of &frescobaldi;. If you want to add functionality you can find information about the source code structure in the file `README-development` in the source distribution.