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LibreMarch is a project of mine that's been on the backburner for about a year. it's going to be a multiplatform marching band drill edtior built in flutter. the idea came to me when i was taking a marching band tech class at umass, and when we started writing our own drill, we used this software called pyware 3d, and while the software "works" and has a lot of features, it's got a multitude of problems in my opinion, such as

• built on java - while this is not fundamentally bad (intellij and minecraft are two java programs people use on a regular basis), it's bloated by design, and i remember my peers barely being able to run the software because it chugged on older macbooks
• very expensive - a basic licence for two computers costs 500 dollars! for aspiring drill writers this is prohibitely expensive. like a lot of other software these days, they are moving to a subscription model (not a fan of people not owning their own software these days), so the price will probably increase as a whole. they have an app for kids, but that's not a real solution in my opinion.
• no webapp - biggest barrier to entry in my opinion.

i was inspired by the micro marching league, a fun little web marching band drill edtior. LibreMarch attempts to be what MuseScore was for music notation for drill editing, The project is still in the early stages of development, but this page will be updated as more work gets done.