Re: [Gimp-developer] OSCon attendance

2004-07-14 Thread Shlomi Fish 
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 05:49, Nathan Carl Summers wrote:
 On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Dave Neary wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Quoting Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
   On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:06:38PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Part of the results of that is that the GIMP is
one of the candidates for the annual golden award (with a
large cash prize) which will be presented to the winning
project in Portland at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference
in a couple of weeks.
  
   awesome.
 
  We're a long way from winning - we're up against the Valgrind
  guy, Pango, VideoLAN, GNU arch and a couple of other really
  good projects. We have a shot, though.

 Heh, my vote is for Valgrind.  :)


Well, valgrind is a very nice and useful tool. (I know becuase I'm also using 
it extensively) However, I think that perhaps GNU Arch deserves to win 
because:

1. It's also supposed to be very nice.

2. Its main developer (Tom Lord) is desperately in need of cash, as he is 
currently unemployed. (or at least was the last time I checked).

This is despite the fact that I'm actually using Subversion where I can, and 
CVS where I must. Of course, Subversion was not nominated, and it has no 
problem of funds, because a large part of its development is sponsored by 
Collab-Net. (and it otherwise has plenty of volunteers who don't need to be 
supported).

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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Re: [Gimp-developer] OSCon attendance

2004-07-14 Thread Markus Triska 

 2. Its main developer (Tom Lord) is desperately in need of cash, as he is
 currently unemployed. (or at least was the last time I checked).

Visit http://gnuarch.org/ for more information. While he is de facto 
unemployed, as you say, he puts it more brightly:
---
Are these after hours hobby projects or what? In fact, no -- since early 
2002, these projects are what I do. I don't have a day job that subsidizes 
this work. Although I'm now working on developing some start-up  projects, in 
the meantime...


By the way: Tom Lord is also working on a new implementation of Scheme (Pika 
Scheme), supporting Unicode. Considering that we could use Tom's Pika Scheme 
instead of TinyScheme, and that he can work on Pika Scheme by living on 
donations that come from his Arch project, it follows that Arch is without a 
doubt a proper sub-project of the GIMP. I'm therefore all the more for GIMP 
to win.

Markus.
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