If you can be compensated with a paypal account I'd like to see people submit for reimbursements. I've put in $2625 and I'd love to see some devs cash that in with feature implementations, community building or maintenance.
If people start actually doing this I will continue to fund so that we can keep up some momentum and start building organically. On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:30 AM Mathieu Lonjaret <[email protected]> wrote: > I just want to add that i'm personally grateful for Brad's "patronage" > and guidance all this time. Fun times were had. > And I want to thank you all again for your time, patience, and > contributions. > I'm not going anywhere either, and I'll keep on using Perkeep for my own > stuff. > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 18:08, Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Perkeep users, > > > > I just wanted to give you all an update on the state of Perkeep and my & > Mathieu's situations. > > > > Of Perkeep's nearly 9 year existence, I'd been paying Mathieu to work on > Perkeep full-time for the past 6 of those years. > > > > But that was always supposed to be a temporary situation that we just > kept doing out of habit. I can't afford to pay Mathieu what he's worth, > though, and we've agreed that he it'd be better for him to get a "real job" > in the industry where he can make normal industry money. It'd also cut > down on my expenses. > > > > As for me: my time has only become more scarce now that I have a kid. > The guilt of not working on Perkeep enough (but wanting to!) is what led me > to pay Mathieu in the first place. > > > > So, what to do now? > > > > I continue to use Perkeep myself and it's not going anywhere, but it > does require ongoing maintenance for some parts (updating to new Go > versions, updating to ever-changing APIs for the site importers) and I hope > I or others in the community (including Mathieu for fun) will be able to > keep up with that. > > > > But in lieu of anybody working on this a lot (full-time or hobby), I > don't expect major work to happen on Perkeep for a bit. > > > > We're very grateful for the 20 supporters and 5 organizations supporting > us financially on Open Collective (https://opencollective.com/perkeep/), > but at this point you should probably stop or at least pause your > donations, as I have nobody to send the money to. I'll be taking out what > remains for Mathieu's final payments. > > > > If anybody has questions, concerns, or suggestions, we're all ears. > > > > We're of course also grateful for all those have contributed their time > & code, and we hope you will continue to do so. I hope to continue hacking > on Perkeep myself as I find pockets of time. > > > > Life, yo. > > > > - Brad & Mathieu > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Perkeep" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Perkeep" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
