Tony said something on the thread that Thomas started to share his TW on the subject of problem solving: "its molding clay for the mind"[1]. I think these type of user are the ones Birthe identifies as the "many that we know nothing about."
Looking back into the history of of TiddlyWiki there have been some serious and high profile computer scientists such as Joe Armstrong. In his talkwith Jeremy "Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang" [3] he starts by talking about Ted Nelson a pioneer of hypertext which Jeremy picks up on later in the talk. Steve Schneider has used TW to teach hyper-textual and interactive writing. DesignWriteStudio [4] is a freely available resource built using a TiddlyWiki to help explore hyper-text and interactive texts. An early example of his work using TiddlyWiki is "Companion to Web Campaigning Kirsten A. Foot & Steven M. Schneider MIT Press, 2006" [5]. There is a paper on TiddlyWiki being used as an interactive note pad to help teach science. [6] Joe Armstrong talks about "all in oneness" and from reading his GitHub hosted TW he likes the fact that TW is a Quine ("a curiosity of computer science", says Jeremy in the talk), putting it at the top of list [7]. I imagine that "those who we know nothing about" may include those who have come to TW with previous interests in the fundamentals of hypertext writing, computer science and research in general like Joe and Steve. There's a long list of professional / expert developers with a passion for open source development. Eric Schulman is without doubt the longest standing example here. The developers coming and going over the years tend not to be those following the to the latest fads and trends, perhaps because TW is not a technology which lends itself to commercialisation in the same way as being a master of a particularly in demand framework. I think many developers don't get TW, but those who do seem to be those with a deep understanding and application of the elegance of design. There is at least three doctors: Saq, Rizwan, Abraham. A missionary (Dave Gifford) and a Mohhmaed chemical engineer. These people have become highly proficient TW developers. Saq talks about learning to code using TiddlyWiki in the recent Hangout [8]. There are some more hangouts planned -- currently on hold (get well soon Jeremy!) -- but they are something TiddlyWiki fan like myself are quite excited about. I think the best way of finding out about the users of TW is probably to start using TW and explore the eco-system. Because TW is an off line technology without data collection by design, I think traditional methods of analysis might not work so well. The community is small enough to get to know regular contributors and the issues they try to solve. Alex [1] http://thomasteepe-archiv.de/ [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/tiddlywiki/tTUKcHOObE0/VsWxm65eBgAJ [3] https://www.softwaretalks.io/v/6705/joe-armstrong-and-jeremy-ruston-intertwingling-the-tiddlywiki-with-erlang-code-mesh-ldn-18 [4] http://designwritestudio.com/ [5] https://web.archive.org/web/20061103082226/http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/0262062585/WebCampaigningDigitalSupplement.html#%5B%5BWelcome%20to%20the%20Web%20Campaigning%20Digital%20Supplement%5D%5D [6] http://people.sunyit.edu/~krieseg/IDT590/Scrapbook/data/20111205115236/4-ithet-2006.pdf [7] https://joearms.github.io/#Index [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvnqgfvohfM On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:13:05 UTC+1, Birthe C wrote: > > How would we know? Maybe the people here guess some numbers, but in > reality TiddlyWiki is used by many that we know nothing about. > > > Birthe > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ff62784c-d303-474b-8bf0-5e1cdaab9851o%40googlegroups.com.