From: Taco Hoekwater <taco-kFB6Pg+5RZv2eFz/2MeuCQ@public.gmane.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
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Cc: "MetaPost bug reports and discussion."
<mp-implementors-WUdSmCIlby8@public.gmane.org>,
luatex development list <dev-luatex-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Affiliation change
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:40:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D46BEA.5060009@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D3B36C.4010603-kFB6Pg+5RZv2eFz/2MeuCQ@public.gmane.org>
Hi,
As Arthur emailed me already: you people are just too gullible ! :)
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> This message is to inform you all that as of today, I am no longer an
> employee of Elvenkind BV, the company where I have worked for during
> the past years.
This part is true, I am in fact an independant contractor now. Life is
just more fun that way, there is no other reason.
> Working for Elvenkind has been a pleasure, but it has always been
> hard for Elvenkind to find enough commercial projects to employ me in.
false
> Even the recent (much appreciated!) funded TeX-development projects
> simply do not generate enough revenue for Elvenkind to make it viable
> to keep me as an employee in the current economic climate.
false (Elvenkind is doing better than ever, if anything)
> This is not the best time to be out of a job, but nevertheless I have
> decided to try to make the most of it an attempt to make an old dream
> happen: being my own boss.
true
> Since quite some time already I have had a private company called
> Bittext that I use for various bits and pieces that simply did not fit
> in with Elvenkind's company strategy (its original intent was to place
> my font development work in that company, but it has also been used as
> the company behind organizing the ConTeXt Epen meeting in 2007, for
> example).
true
> For the development of luatex and metapost, I do not expect that much
> to change compared to the current situation: Hans and I will continue
> to write funding proposals and we hope that enough of those will be
> granted so that I can keep that development work going much like it is.
> (about a 50% commitment working on these two programs in an average
> working week).
true
> However, for ConTeXT and other TeX-related things, the situation is a
> bit more problematic.
false
> Pragma ADE does not have money to fund any
> projects, even if I managed to find something to excite Hans that
> he couldn't do faster himself ;).
true
> To find the missing source of
> income, I intend to start giving commercial ConTeXt courses and
false
> I plan to start selling manuals via lulu.
false
> Perhaps there is a bit of
> consultancy that can be found as well,
false
> and I will try to regain some
> of my old mathematical typesetting clients.
false
> But I fear that even all of that together will generate enough income
> for me to continue developing modules and offering help for free.
false
> Therefore, the planned bib module replacement will be released as
> commercial software,
false
> and support for other ConTeXT stuff (like the
> current bib module) will become a paid service.
false
> Probably via a
> subscription website, that will (for example) also host my release
> notes.
false
> I am brooding on other ConTeXt module ideas that people
> may be willing to pay for,
false
> and I will finish the font projects
> that are still on my disk for sale via my website.
maybe
> This April (until around BachoTeX) I will still be busy preparing the
> luatex and metapost binaries for the TeXlive 2009 deadline, but after
true
> that I will likely drop offline for a while,
false
> creating the Bittext
> website ( http://www.bittext.com )
true-ish, that really does need to be done.
> and figuring out things like how to
> be on the receiving end of Lulu and PayPal.
false
> Well, that is about all I wanted to say right now. I am quite
> apprehensive about how this news will fall in the ConTeXT community, but
> I see no other way.
false
> And I must admit that at the same time I am quite
> excited about being "in control of my own destiny", as they say!
true
Best wishes,
Taco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-02 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-01 18:33 Taco Hoekwater
2009-04-01 19:47 ` Alan Stone
2009-04-01 20:33 ` [Dev-luatex] " Wolfgang Schuster
2009-04-02 7:40 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-02 7:45 ` Otared Kavian
2009-04-02 7:59 ` luigi scarso
2009-04-01 21:30 ` Nikolai Weibull
2009-04-01 23:18 ` David Wooten
[not found] ` <49D3B36C.4010603-kFB6Pg+5RZv2eFz/2MeuCQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-02 7:40 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2009-04-02 7:57 ` luigi scarso
2009-04-02 8:10 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-02 8:20 ` luigi scarso
2009-04-02 8:27 ` Alan Stone
2009-04-02 8:32 ` luigi scarso
2009-04-02 8:45 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-02 8:37 ` luigi scarso
2009-04-02 8:42 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-04-02 8:47 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-02 9:12 ` luigi scarso
2009-04-02 12:58 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2009-04-02 13:01 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-04-02 13:16 ` Alan Stone
2009-04-02 8:45 ` Alan Stone
2009-04-02 8:41 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-02 12:56 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2009-04-02 8:00 ` Yanrui Li
2009-04-02 8:31 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-04-02 8:33 ` luigi scarso
2009-04-02 9:37 ` Wei-Wei Guo
2009-04-02 13:52 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-04-02 14:00 ` luigi scarso
2009-04-02 22:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-04-03 5:15 ` luigi scarso
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