Hello Young Composers, 
  
I want to take this time to discuss a new development I have been working on, which is a standalone music notation program for Windows.  The program will integrate with this website which will include comments and music management/uploads.  I haven't made any official announcements because I wanted to make sure I was actually able to follow through.  The first version of this program will be for Windows, and I am happy to say that none of this will be outsourced.  Because it will not be outsourced, fixing issues or adding new features will be much easier to accomplish. 
  
I plan on making all files saved by this program exportable to Lilypond, which will be worked on after the main phase has been complete.  Thus, the vision is after a score has been saved it will be integrated with Lilypond and export a PDF.  This will mean that the program could be used exclusively to create Lilypond files. 
  
The features of this program will contain everything you would expect in a typical music notation editor.  However once the basic framework of the program has been complete, we can be creative and add features that may not exist on competing products.