Will there be anyone able to take time to make decisions about design
choices and to do code reviews?

Some things I currently have an interest in, (some are small, some are big):

. Adding thumbnails to PDFs
. Having perkeep understand how many pages are in a pdf, with that being
searchable
. Somehow allowing for multiple dates and people being associated with a
pdf (e.g. this document was created on date ‘a’ by user ‘z’, mailed on date
‘b’ to user ‘y’, then emailed on date ‘c’ to user ‘x’) in a searchable way

I used to make my living doing software engineering (and wrote the pinboard
importer for perkeep), but these days I’m working in the legal field. A
single case can have over 10,000 pages of PDFs associated with it and I
would like to be able to manage them better.

- Gina

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:05 PM Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another update: I've moved https://opencollective.com/perkeep back to
> being hosted by the Open Source non-profit (
> https://opencollective.com/opensourcecollective) instead of me being the
> fiscal host.
>
> That means I don't get the money to my bank account directly anymore,
> which is good (and easier on taxes, ugh). We were only doing that because I
> needed to pay Mathieu in Euros before and Open Collective's Open Source
> non-profit fiscal host couldn't do that.
>
> So at least this point we can let people do work & get paid out via PayPal
> or Stripe or whatever from the non-profit and I'm not in the path, except
> to click "approve" on expenses along with Mathieu & Paul Lindner. PayPal
> can do the currency conversion. Tiny bit more in fees, but better than me
> dealing with it.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:08 AM 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
>>
>>
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