Re: [colorforth] Jeff Fox

["Ray St. Marie" <ray.stmarie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Much thanks for prompt reply Jeff.

I would like to offer my unpaid services to help your organization
support the greater colorforth community.

I would be willing to sign any and all documentation necessary to
protect IntellaSYS, and their partners, and to satisfy any protections
needed to facilitate such an endeavor.

With much respect,
Ray St. Marie.
Ray.stmarie@xxxxxxxxx Ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


On 9/25/07, Jeff Fox <fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It seems like there has been a new colorforth
> distribution about once a month for the last year or
> two although there has not been a big effort to seperate
> the upgrades into releaseable and non-releaseable sections.
> When it was just Chuck and I working with it I released
> two of the first three versions and hosted the other and
> provided lots of background information.
>
> Chuck hasn't been involved much in colorforth system
> development and has been focused on application
> development.  Chuck and I are members of several teams
> using colorforth in the okad2 suite of applications.
>
> There were reports on colorforth in 2005 and 2006 at
> the Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group Forth day and
> both times it was said that a new system would be
> released to the public soon.  But releasing a new
> public version doesn't appear to be as high a priority
> to the new team as it was when it was Chuck and I who
> were releasing colorforth versions to the public.
>
> In an effort to support the colorforth community I
> have gotten permission from Chuck, and gotten agreement
> from the team, and asked repeatedly when it would
> happen.  The monthly upgrades of the platform for
> applications seem to be a much higher priority
> than a new public release.  Each month there seems
> to be something new that is more important.
>
> I think part of that is that no one was paying Chuck
> to write colorforth that hosted okad2.  And no one
> was paying Chuck or me to release colorforth to
> the public. When a company formed people got paid to
> write okad2 apps and upgrade the OS and compiler
> they were not told that they were being paid to
> publish free releases of colorforth.  I got the ok
> for them to do this, but not for them to put this
> at the top of their official worklist of projects.
> And since they are not being paid to do it and
> are being paid to do something that people all
> around them are counting on I think they are just
> focused on working in Forth.
>
> I have my own theory on what else might be
> discouraging people from contributing to the
> colorforth community.  Unfortunately the subject of
> this thread isn't colorforth release features, or
> colorforth release dates, or colorforth programming.
>
>
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