From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48990 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.luatex,gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Affiliation change Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:40:26 +0200 Message-ID: <49D46BEA.5060009@elvenkind.com> References: <49D3B36C.4010603@elvenkind.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238658222 20329 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2009 07:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 07:43:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "MetaPost bug reports and discussion." , luatex development list To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: dev-luatex-bounces-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org Thu Apr 02 09:45:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctl-dev-luatex@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LpHbf-0006He-Ki for gctl-dev-luatex@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:44:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6911FB77; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:43:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27743-03-3; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:42:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120A01FB38; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:42:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF321FB1F for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:42:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25865-01-2 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:41:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1DE31FB38 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:41:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n327eXv5018777 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:41:08 +0200 Original-Received: (from defang@localhost) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n327eRko018576 for dev-luatex-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (envelope-sender ) (MIMEDefang) with ESMTP id n327eQrH018541; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:40:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3B6804515D; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:40:26 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081120) In-Reply-To: <49D3B36C.4010603-kFB6Pg+5RZv2eFz/2MeuCQ@public.gmane.org> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=82.95.203.226; country=NL; region=11; city=Rotterdam; latitude=51.9167; longitude=4.5000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.9167,4.5000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:dev-luatex-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 202694623 - c6e0d342d67c - 20090402 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: dev-luatex-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: dev-luatex-bounces-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org Errors-To: dev-luatex-bounces-wvrSQK3plZs@public.gmane.org X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.luatex:736 gmane.comp.tex.context:48990 Archived-At: 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