From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48986 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wooten Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Affiliation change Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:18:09 -0700 Message-ID: References: <49D3B36C.4010603@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238627967 22140 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2009 23:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:19:27 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 02 01:20:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@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 1Lp9je-00040W-G8 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:20:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0DD1FB57; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:19:15 +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 09496-02; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:18:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBF01FB14; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:18:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69A61FB14 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:18:28 +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 01798-02 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:18:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACF41FADF for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:18:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wuduwasa.macminicolo.net (wuduwasa.org [66.116.103.196]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n31NIDrx012246 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 01:18:19 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.20.10] (ip-69-27-187-189.pacificanet.com [69.27.187.189]) by wuduwasa.macminicolo.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7DF812A3E29 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:17:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49D3B36C.4010603@elvenkind.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=66.116.103.196; country=US; region=NV; city=Las Vegas; postalcode=89104; latitude=36.1511; longitude=-115.1105; metrocode=839; areacode=702; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.1511,-115.1105&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 202589857 - 71c0ccbe194b - 20090402 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:48986 Archived-At: Dear Taco, I really appreciate your work & help over the years, and fully support your decision. It is also a dream of mine to find my way to financial stability as a polymath freelancer. Luckily, it's not my dream to make it rich ;) Best wishes, David On Apr 1, 2009, at 11:33 AM, 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. > > Working for Elvenkind has been a pleasure, but it has always been > hard for Elvenkind to find enough commercial projects to employ me in. > 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. > > 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. > > 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). > > 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). > > However, for ConTeXT and other TeX-related things, the situation is a > bit more problematic. 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 ;). To find the missing source of > income, I intend to start giving commercial ConTeXt courses and > I plan to start selling manuals via lulu. Perhaps there is a bit of > consultancy that can be found as well, and I will try to regain some > of my old mathematical typesetting clients. > > But I fear that even all of that together will generate enough income > for me to continue developing modules and offering help for free. > Therefore, the planned bib module replacement will be released as > commercial software, and support for other ConTeXT stuff (like the > current bib module) will become a paid service. Probably via a > subscription website, that will (for example) also host my release > notes. I am brooding on other ConTeXt module ideas that people > may be willing to pay for, and I will finish the font projects > that are still on my disk for sale via my website. > > This April (until around BachoTeX) I will still be busy preparing the > luatex and metapost binaries for the TeXlive 2009 deadline, but after > that I will likely drop offline for a while, creating the Bittext > website ( http://www.bittext.com ) and figuring out things like how to > be on the receiving end of Lulu and PayPal. > > 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. And I must admit that at the same time I am quite > excited about being "in control of my own destiny", as they say! > > Best wishes to all of you, > > Taco > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an > entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________