Dear Jaap, - Thanks for amazing product. Its been a part of my daily life for more than half a decade now. - I have not been able to contribute technically other than writing few how-to blog posts. I look forward to contributing more in 2021 - For some reason I can't donate from India, paypal shows this error message -> "Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country" - Thank you all. Peace and joy to you and your family this holiday season.
Thej -- Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 at 02:10, Matthew Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > Donate here: https://zim-wiki.org/contribute.html > > > *Matt Halpin* matt@ms <%[email protected]>taav.com > <%[email protected]> o: <%[email protected]>(510)403-9808 <+15104039808> > m: <+15104039808>(415)602-0153 <+14156020153> > ------------------------------ > > > On 12/29/2020 12:24:30 PM, "Mario Bezzi" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jaap, > > thank you for taking the time to share your plans, thanks for the good > news, and thanks for finding the time to work on Zim despite all the > juggling. > > Couple of points: > > 1 - Zim is my work horse since years now, and I would like to contribute, > to confirm that yes, we count on it and on you. Where I can find the > donations page? > > 2 - Counting both document and attachments, my Zim wiki holds some 60K > objects or 150GB of data. I don't know if this is a lot, and I am just > driving the tool outside its sweet spot, but in my experience the search > facility simply can't cope with notebooks like this. Hopefully the fix to > avoid indexing text file attachments will help, but in my opinion improving > search performance should be more than just nice to have. No push, just my > own experience. > > Thanks again, and stay safe! > mario > > On 12/29/20 8:46 PM, Jaap Karssenberg 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 : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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