Re: Affiliation change

[Wei-Wei Guo <wwguocn@gmail.com>]

Although the fool's day passed, I still had been gotten by you. It's so
good that those horrible things are not true.

Good job!
Wei-Wei


Taco Hoekwater 写道:
> 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
> 
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