On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 5:05 PM Paul Lindner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Just thinking aloud, but one thing that might be interesting is if donors can set bounties on certain features or bugs. 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. > -- 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.
