Thanks for the kind words, Saq. It's been great working with you and Jeremy and I'm happy to support you and the community.
I'd really like some open discussion around how the TiddlyWiki community can use and rally around Open Collective. I'm personally _very_ inspired by the organization and the promise it has over time -- and where it is at today. Their recent blog post is a very good read https://blog.opencollective.com/solidarity-as-our-guiding-principle/. I'll quote part of the post: *Technology Owned by the People* *Open Collective is part of a movement for start-ups and tech platforms become to become owned by their users and stakeholders, called “exit to community” or E2C. Learn more about this community interested in community control and governance here. We don’t know exactly what the future holds, but OCF, grounded in perspectives of solidarity, will be a key influence on the future of the Open Collective platform as a commons.* In short, I've been working with open source software and communities for 2 decades now. I'm more convinced than ever that we can "Build Software Together" and that Open Collective is a tool that can be used by communities to pool funds towards common goals. This experiment with the file uploads plugin has lead directly to having Saq spend time working on a more solid foundation for core TW architecture. Can we continue this? Can we get more small and large projects and people funded through OC? On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 12:33:18 PM UTC-7 saq.i...@gmail.com wrote: > We will be having a *TiddlyWiki Community call* with Jeremy, Boris and > myself on August 17th at 6pm CET: TiddlyWiki Community: Core Savers & > Syncers, Upload Plugin, & Community Forum - Zoom <https://lu.ma/6l5y65il> > > I hope some of you will be able to join us for what I think will be a very > interesting discussion. Please register for the event at the link above. > > The call will include: > > - a progress update on my work on the *Uploads plugin* funded by Open > Collective > - a summary of some rather exciting and promising avenues for core > development in the areas of *Savers and Syncers* that has come out of > discussions around the Uploads plugin > - an update on the *Open Collective* model for funding TiddlyWiki work > and what we have learned from it thus far > - some news from Jeremy and Boris regarding improvements to TiddlyWiki > *community > infrastructure*. > > I have been slowly working away on the TiddlyWiki file uploads plugin as > was previously announced > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/21yCCLI0E7s/m/vf04ZBxfAwAJ>. > The majority of the work thus far has consisted of brainstorming around the > architecture and some very involved but promising and productive > discussions with Jeremy around how such a plugin would integrate with the > core, and the direction that the core might take in the future with regards > to saving and syncing mechanisms. > > In particular we have identified some exciting opportunities to explore in > due course for a rethinking of the saver and syncer mechanisms that may > amongst other things eventually make file uploads a core TiddlyWiki ability > alongside saving and syncing and static file publishing. > > This has necessitated a change in approach to the File Uploads plugin so > as to not introduce changes to the TiddlyWiki core at this time which may > clash with the long term direction of development, and still make the > Uploads plugin available in a timely manner for those that need this > functionality today. I currently have a minimal working prototype that > uploads images imported into TiddlyWiki to Fission, though with no UI or > error handling as of yet and desperately in need of some heavy refactoring > to better be able to support different storage back ends. I hope to present > a demo of an early version of the plugin on the call. > > I would like to take the opportunity here to thank Boris and Fission. > Despite Boris having chipped in for the vast majority of the funding for > this plugin as it is something he needs in his own TiddlyWiki usage, not > only has he been patient and supportive as we focus on long term core > planning first, but Fission has actively been facilitating those > discussions. > > Regards, > Saq > -- 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/a233b1fd-1dd0-4bf7-a086-d81ae353443bn%40googlegroups.com.
