Dear Jaap, thank you for your great project. Best wishes. On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:32 AM Thejesh GN <i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote:
> > 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 <m...@mstaav.com> wrote: > >> Donate here: https://zim-wiki.org/contribute.html >> >> >> *Matt Halpin* matt@ms <%20m...@mstaav.com>taav.com >> <%20m...@mstaav.com> o: <%20m...@mstaav.com>(510)403-9808 <+15104039808> >> m: <+15104039808>(415)602-0153 <+14156020153> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> On 12/29/2020 12:24:30 PM, "Mario Bezzi" < >> subscriptions.mario.be...@gmail.com> 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 : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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