Dear Eric (and others) As a recipient of your freely given help over the years I sincerely hope I can help in some way - I am not sure how at the moment though, apart from cash.
It would be very interesting to see if some TiddlyFans could spin some kind of business model operation out of TW. I've often thought "I wish my real world worked as well as TiddlyWorld." I think I could have sold TW solutions to customers in the past, but have backed off because I didn't have the experience or expertise to deliver something professional. I've only every presented TW as prototypes and they have not been part of convincing enough projects to generate serious funds. GET OUR BUSINESS HEADS TOGETHER ? I wonder if TiddlyFans might want to get their heads together outside the Google Group? Bauwe and I Skype from time to time, it would good to talk to the other European TW people, Måns, Tobias, Mario. One of the things I like about TW culture is its Euro-Centric make up. I may be quite alone here in Manchester but I really like this aspect of the "community" - and I do think that is not an inappropriate use of the term The point about governance is an interesting one that has come up before, its an interesting one given the context - of open source innovation. It would make a great study for a student of business (I have made some enquiries for myself) - the story should be written up. But I don't think governance should get in the way of some entrepreneurial thinking. Where I am in Manchester UK money is very tight and going to get worse over the winter as funding is cut from many 3rd Sector and community projects. It's these organisations which could benefit from TiddlyThinking, open source and general Wikification but they are the ones least likely to have decent budgets to spend. It's a price sensitive end of the market, dependent on volunteers, volunteers would would prefer "can operate Word, Powerpoint and Excel to proficient standard" on their CV. TiddlyWiki - or any kind of wiki for that matter - is quite a difficult sell to organisations without resource to allocate to trying out new methods of working. Having said all that, it might help if there was a compelling example, a case study - an elevator pitch, (perhaps in video form?) - showing the benefits of using TW and perhaps more importantly, the culture that's developed around, it to an organisation. (Mån's use in his school sounds very enlightened. Nordic pedagogy has a great reputation in the UK, I'd love to see it in action and hear the user stories. If it can save money and be easy to use then it will catch on) got to go... best wishes Alex On 8 November 2011 19:34, wolfgang <[email protected]> wrote: >> > right now, it's amateur hour >> >> You need to get paid to be called a pro - right? >> >> Pay the man ;-) > > Well, if Eric got paid since 2006, and the whole Osmosoft team for not > that much shorter - it's really difficult to even imagine how many $$$$ > $$$ would be needed. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
