I am sorry to see this as well, I only learned about it earlier this month
and since many of DOS/FREEDOS "geeks" are on fixed income, the deadline did
not permit a timely contribution. Please keep this in mind if it should be
revived.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Michael Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From the comments page:
>>
>> "Unfortunately the FreeDOS community wants nothing to do with this
>> project as the goals cannot not be mutually met i will be removing the
>> project and exiting the development. sorry."
>>
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the Kickstarter project was launched without any
>> consultation from the FreeDOS community. A little bit of discussion up
>> front about what he wanted the project to achieve would have gone a long
>> way to getting more buy-in. There was no participation in the roadmap
>> discussion either, once the discussion started. So it's hard to read that
>> comment and not shake one's head.
>>
>> If somebody is in contact with Chelson or the backers of the project they
>> should encourage them to join the mailing lists here.
>>
>>
>
>
> Yes, I saw that the FreeDOS-32 kickstarter project was canceled. That's
> too bad. I encourage all new development efforts in FreeDOS. I was curious
> to see where this project would go. Since the project is canceled, I
> removed the link to the kickstarter from the www.freedos.org page this
> morning.
>
> Chelson started the kickstarter project based on some discussion on the
> FreeDOS Facebook page. It looks like he has deleted his posts there, so I
> can't cite a post for you. I did encourage Chelson and others in the
> Facebook group who were interested in FreeDOS-32 to join the Road Map
> conversation on the freedos-devel list. Chelson said he was watching the
> freedos-devel list, but hadn't posted anything during our Road Map
> discussion. That's too bad.
>
> I was recently in contact with Chelson via email about a different topic:
> his DOSCORE distribution (which is based on FreeDOS) and his Aura M4
> desktop (an update of the oZone GUI). But he didn't mention that he was
> canceling his kickstarter project. Although he did say in an earlier email
> that he was frustrated with the negative response & comments he was getting
> on the Facebook group, and hinted the canceling the project "might be in
> the cards" so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that the kickstarter is now
> canceled.
>
> jh
>
>
>
>
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