Thanks for sharing your inside views Chris and Jeremy, I really appreciate.
>>> At some point, Tiddly is going to live or die by whether or not the folks >>> most committed to it find a long-term model for supporting the software and >>> themselves. >> >> I completely disagree with this, and I think it is the prevelance of >> this attitude in this thread which has contributed to me becoming >> angry and finding it hard to find a way into the thread that is >> clear and focused. > > Seems to me that, for Tiddly to move down that path, some core group needs to > provide the focus for a year or two - and Jerymy and Erik seem like the > obvious candidates. I encoundered a somewhat similiar difficulty to stay focused on contributing some more constructive. But then it also became very clear that those voices of feeling insecure about the future of TiddlyWiki - also because the involvment of non-transparent financial interests - brought a sort of anger and grieve too: that a TiddlyWiki depending on too few active developers could indeed die very quickly. Though these feelings aren't particularly new: I too really needed to take a break from the lack of regular contributors to this 'community'. It just doen't works for very long if only 1-2 seriously commited developers are regularly giving dependable and professional advise, like Eric and Fred at that time, and 1-2 enthusiasic users who regularly check to give sufficient every-day use responses. Giving and taking becommes too one-sided and sooner or later one can't help but give up. One could deny or lament, but in the end that's how it's been: Few out of enthusiasm will fill this lack with too much engagement while exacty this lack of a broad 'community' sooner or later makes it sort of a chore - not neccessarily by itself but compounded by usually occuring demands of daily life - take a break for some time and finally are gone. Don't think too often this happens out of interrest in TiddlyWiki has outgrown itself, but here I can only talk for myself. Sure there were always a couple of new enthousiasts and this cycle rolled on. And now the only one who could sustain this service at such a professional level since it's beginnings could drop away! Well, if that doesn't appear a bit bleak for the future of TW I don't know what else! Preaching an ideal community in this situation surely wont help. It isn't there in it's double-sense of voluntarity _and_ continuity. Just developers and users coming and moving on most of the time with too rare exceptions. Where the possible lack of the rare amounts to sort of a catastrophe. Maybe my view is a bid out of relation, because I don't have any experience with other software communities to compare, but that's been the situation as it presented itself to me here as an at one point very enthusiastic TiddlyWiki contributor to this support forum. Beside having further degressed and maybe even miss-used this thread of Eric for venting off - but I believe nevertheless this IS very pertaining to the issue of Eric not being able to contribute anymore - and very realistic fears what this would entail for TiddlyWiki. However, now I'm also glad at least Jeremy could appease some of the most immediate fears. Thanks again for everyone's contributions. -- 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.
