Ciao Tobias

To continue on that one point. I think you are right that I could go 
another way. Into a more honed environment. Though, if so, I'd more likely 
take it local with interested folk face to face if it got the steam up 
enough. 

The question for me remains, and where we will probably forever tussle (so 
long as we GG), is whether differentiation requires segregation or not. 
IMO, GG won't serve anything that could balance those. BUT some other forum 
types, probably.

So far you have intensified my existential ennui :-).

Best wishes
Josiah

On Thursday, 12 January 2017 08:43:32 UTC+1, Tobias Beer wrote:
>
> Hi Josiah,
>  
>
>> Over the last several months there has been a lot of e-pub discussion 
>> (the fact you never read one I forgive you for and hope you will accept the 
>> example even though you know nothing :-). 
>>
>
> When one is not around, they're not around. ;-) 
>
> My point? In a different type of forum it might well gel better. To get 
>> beyond one demo. E-pubs have many shared issues that better collectivity 
>> could help. TW could be a great e-pub format. Here we get splinters on it. 
>> Real steps remain at the edge. IMO this happens because GG is inadequate to 
>> fostering anything other than transient emailing/posting.
>>
>
> I don't think leverage is what you're after but rather *traction*, 
> traction and *support* for a very explicit *project*. Now, one might 
> argue that e-pubs can be a significant project to help push TiddlyWiki out 
> onto the big stage more (and thus create some more leverage to do bigger 
> proects ;-) but... and of course you agree, this place is a terrible forum 
> to try and manage the ambitions of a TiddlyWiki e-pub project.
>
> At least, such a thing would require a propper project context. For me, 
> atm that would be a github repo, since you can address all the nitty gritty 
> detail from goals and requirements, to functional and technical 
> specification all the way to voting for and implementation features through 
> actual code and all that ...in a defined spot. But it takes for a lead 
> developer (architect) to take on the job not only to understand the 
> code-base, but to kind of manage the overall process, so people stay 
> realistic of how to get from start to finish. If you want an even more 
> "engaging" experience than a github repo can deliver, well, I don't know... 
> you're trying to give life to a highly complex social experiment with a 
> desired outcome... that's never quite a simple thing to pull of, no matter 
> what the environment. Without some professional organisation, there's a 
> good chance a bunch of voluntary, self-made coders and idea-generators will 
> find it hard to form unity, but it's possible as we all know. OpenSource is 
> a thing, it's alive and it's kicking... but everyone doing it also knows 
> its problems... the most prominent one being that that guy didn't show up 
> for half a year: So what's that about? ;-)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Tobias. 
>

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