Re: [colorforth] Jeff Fox

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

ps.

I have every intention of putting colorforth on the www.laptop.com OLPC.

Ray.

On 9/25/07, Ray St. Marie <ray.stmarie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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> --
> Raymond St. Marie ii,
>


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