[tw] Re: On Leaving BT and Osmosoft
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 jeremy.rus...@gmail.com 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:jer...@osmosoft.comhttp://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 tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: On Leaving BT and Osmosoft
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 matiasg...@gmail.com 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 jeremy.rus...@gmail.com 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:jer...@osmosoft.comhttp://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 tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
Re: [tw] Re: On Leaving BT and Osmosoft
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? The copyrights and intellectual property in TiddlyWiki are held by UnaMesa on behalf of the community. BT has the same rights to use the software that you or I do. I'll be working on TiddlyWiki alongside Osmosoft, who will also no doubt be doing more TiddlyWeb and TiddlySpace work. I'll be working closely with Chris and the rest of the community to bring some much needed architectural and stylistic updates to the TiddlyWiki code. ...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.) To start with my goal is to update the TiddlyWiki build process so that it's easier to work on the code. There's a lot of updating and streamlining to do to make TiddlyWiki's basic functionality usable, and I guess that will be the focus for a while. But as soon as possible, I'd like to pick up TiddlyWiki5 (possibly under a new name): a major new release that breaks backwards compatibility. Best wishes Jeremy On Nov 9, 3:00 pm, Jeremy Ruston jeremy.rus...@gmail.com 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:jer...@osmosoft.comhttp://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 tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:jer...@osmosoft.com http://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 tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: On Leaving BT and Osmosoft
Hi Jeremy 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 wish you all the best - and hope to hear about your new ventures on these threads! As you can read from recent posts there are a lot of thinking(concerns) going on - on the same matter: Earning a living because of TW, Using TW as the platform for a new single-page app or making professional strategies with TW etc ... It's something of a coincidence that both Eric Shulman and You are in a similar situation?! Please get in contact and enjoy that you have some common grounds. I believe we can all benefit from your ventures into the private consulting business... - even if it's just some new plugins or a new application based on TW. Please ask if you need help of any kind.. Congratulations, good luck - and all the best. Cheers Måns Mårtensson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
[tw] Re: On Leaving BT and Osmosoft
Hi Jeremy, that sounds like great news for yourself and tiddlywiki. I hope that you new found freedom will give you the opportunity to develop tiddlywiki further. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
