Hi, As Arthur emailed me already: you people are just too gullible ! :)
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > This message is to inform you all that as of today, I am no longer an > employee of Elvenkind BV, the company where I have worked for during > the past years. This part is true, I am in fact an independant contractor now. Life is just more fun that way, there is no other reason. > Working for Elvenkind has been a pleasure, but it has always been > hard for Elvenkind to find enough commercial projects to employ me in. false > Even the recent (much appreciated!) funded TeX-development projects > simply do not generate enough revenue for Elvenkind to make it viable > to keep me as an employee in the current economic climate. false (Elvenkind is doing better than ever, if anything) > This is not the best time to be out of a job, but nevertheless I have > decided to try to make the most of it an attempt to make an old dream > happen: being my own boss. true > Since quite some time already I have had a private company called > Bittext that I use for various bits and pieces that simply did not fit > in with Elvenkind's company strategy (its original intent was to place > my font development work in that company, but it has also been used as > the company behind organizing the ConTeXt Epen meeting in 2007, for > example). true > For the development of luatex and metapost, I do not expect that much > to change compared to the current situation: Hans and I will continue > to write funding proposals and we hope that enough of those will be > granted so that I can keep that development work going much like it is. > (about a 50% commitment working on these two programs in an average > working week). true > However, for ConTeXT and other TeX-related things, the situation is a > bit more problematic. false > Pragma ADE does not have money to fund any > projects, even if I managed to find something to excite Hans that > he couldn't do faster himself ;). true > To find the missing source of > income, I intend to start giving commercial ConTeXt courses and false > I plan to start selling manuals via lulu. false > Perhaps there is a bit of > consultancy that can be found as well, false > and I will try to regain some > of my old mathematical typesetting clients. false > But I fear that even all of that together will generate enough income > for me to continue developing modules and offering help for free. false > Therefore, the planned bib module replacement will be released as > commercial software, false > and support for other ConTeXT stuff (like the > current bib module) will become a paid service. false > Probably via a > subscription website, that will (for example) also host my release > notes. false > I am brooding on other ConTeXt module ideas that people > may be willing to pay for, false > and I will finish the font projects > that are still on my disk for sale via my website. maybe > This April (until around BachoTeX) I will still be busy preparing the > luatex and metapost binaries for the TeXlive 2009 deadline, but after true > that I will likely drop offline for a while, false > creating the Bittext > website ( http://www.bittext.com ) true-ish, that really does need to be done. > and figuring out things like how to > be on the receiving end of Lulu and PayPal. false > Well, that is about all I wanted to say right now. I am quite > apprehensive about how this news will fall in the ConTeXT community, but > I see no other way. false > And I must admit that at the same time I am quite > excited about being "in control of my own destiny", as they say! true Best wishes, Taco _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
