Hello Jeremy, I'm Italian and I do not speak English very well ... I still want you to know that I consider your work exceptional. I wish you all the best!
On 10 Nov, 05:33, twgrp <[email protected]> wrote: > First, I wish you all the best! > > Second, a few questions :-) They are a mixed bag of questions, where > answering one may cancel out others so I'll just present them in a > pile: > > Could you or someone explain a little about the "ownership" of TW and > it's various forms? I mean, as a regular user I see a risk of things > forking apart when the key developer goes his own way. What of TW is > left at BT? Will proprietary issues arise (BT owns Osmosoft, right) - > or is all things TW property of UnaMesa? Are there intentions (at > least from your side) to keep things compatible? As a general user, I > use vanilla TW but also many tiddlyspaces. Are you involved in the > latter? > > ...and, any elaboration on what "making TW good" means in your > perspective, ie. what would your focus be (browser compatability, > mobile focus, features, easier for newcomers, more commercial > designs, ...?) Hope this is not rude of me to ask but because you are > such a key individual for TW and it is a tool I use it would simply be > valuable to get a sense of direction. (I think this question becomes > extra pressing when it comes to open source projects driven by > individuals. When you have a commercial tool like, say, a Windows or > an Apple product, then you know the focus for them is to make the > products as user friendly and as commercially powerful as possible, > very carefully listening to the user needs. Not necessarily so with > open source of course.) > > Again, all best!!! > > :-) > > On Nov 9, 3:00 pm, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > After four and a half years, I've decided to leave BT in order to > > return to working as an independent consultant. Osmosoft will continue > > within BT under the leadership of Matt Lucht, and I'll be doing some > > work back to Osmosoft to help out. The formal announcement is here: > > >http://osmosoft.com/#%5B%5BJeremy%20Ruston%20to%20leave%20BT%5D%5D > > > I'm hoping that through consulting I'll be able to work with a wider > > range of people who are interested in TiddlyWiki, TiddlyWeb and > > TiddlySpace. I also intend to focus some much needed time on > > TiddlyWiki. I've started work on improving the content of > > tiddlywiki.com, and am starting work on replacing the TiddlyWiki build > > tools cook and ginsu with a more flexible toolchain based on node.js. > > Once those two bits of infrastructure are in place then I'll pick up > > TiddlyWiki5 again. I'm enjoying this work immensely; one of the > > frustrating consequences of my position at BT was that I couldn't > > spend much time coding. > > > I'm enjoying the feeling of decompressing. To be sincere and > > constructive in working for an organisation like BT, you have to take > > on the problems and perspective of the organisation as a whole. The > > process is fascinating and instructive, and I've learned a lot from > > it. But now I have the luxury of exchanging those concerns for some > > much simpler ones: making TiddlyWiki good, and being able to earn a > > living because of it. > > > I'll do my best to answer any questions, > > > Best wishes > > > Jeremy. > > > -- > > Jeremy Ruston > > mailto:[email protected]://www.tiddlywiki.com -- 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.
