Thank you for your great project, Jaap. Best wishes for 2021.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 10:47 PM Jaap Karssenberg < jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > In this mail I would like to share a project update and an update on > donations for the Zim project. > > As those who are using the development snapshots will be aware, there is > quite some work lined up already for a new release. Key features will be UI > changes towards a more modern "Gnome 3" look (for better or worse - tastes > differ), the ability to edit pages in separate windows, and a fix for not > indexing text file attachments as pages (which is long overdue). In the > mean time I try to do reasonable frequent "point releases" of the main > branch to fix critical bugs. I expect at least one more point release > before I can release the features waiting in the development branch. Last > few months I had good progress, but unfortunately the Netherlands is in > lockdown again due to COVID-19 over the Christmas holiday, so the coming > weeks or longer I will be juggling family and work and expect little time > left for Zim. But I will manage to do at least critical bug fixes. As a > long term plan I now use a list of things I would want to see in a "1.0 > release" for Zim. The list is available in the GitHub wiki here > <https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/wiki/Planning>. > > I've also been thinking what to do with the donations that come in. First > of all I would like to stress I really appreciate all the donations that > come in - I always experience them as a token of gratitude and a direct > message that people out there are actually using my application. They also > make me feel responsible: first of all to make sure Zim is worthy of those > donations, but secondly also in putting the money to good use. At the > moment they amount between 500 - 1000 euros per year. Since this is not > enough to hire commercial help, I myself do any work on Zim for free, and > expenses are limited to webhosting, I don't have a real good use for this > money at the moment. Therefore as of this year I will donate any donations > beyond a small buffer to the International Red Cross (via the dutch > national branch). I'm convinced they will be able to put it to good use and > are sufficiently politically neutral. I also believe this will give me > personally a better incentive to keep working on Zim, knowing it > contributes not only to good open software but also in a small way to more > pressing needs. > > I hope all of you are safe out there and wish you all the best for 2021! > > Kind regards, > > Jaap Karssenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Best regards, Yury Dudorov
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