Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-30 Thread Geoff Canyon
Ugh. Went back to slashdot to submit again to get balked again to get the url, and it submitted without complaint. http://slashdot.org/submission/2471085/kickstarter-project-a-free-open-version-of-livecode On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Geoff- > > Tuesday, January 29, 20

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Geoff- Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 10:26:27 PM, you wrote: > I filled the whole thing out, and when I clicked submit it showed it to me. Weird. Do you have a url? I searched and nothing came up. I looked at submissions and there's nothing there about it. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
I filled the whole thing out, and when I clicked submit it showed it to me. Sent from my iPad On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Geoff- > > Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 4:02:38 PM, you wrote: > >> I remembered my slashdot login! Turns out it's already been submitted by an >> anon

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Geoff- Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 4:02:38 PM, you wrote: > I remembered my slashdot login! Turns out it's already been submitted by an > anonymous coward. Side note: the slashdot submission process is hostile. I still don't see a listing on slashdot... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Geoff Canyon writes: > Side note: the slashdot submission process is hostile. Yeah... that's part of why I was hoping someone else would take this on -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
I remembered my slashdot login! Turns out it's already been submitted by an anonymous coward. Side note: the slashdot submission process is hostile. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Kevin Miller writes: > > > > > We reached out to him as soon as he backed us. Looks like he

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Kevin Miller writes: > > We reached out to him as soon as he backed us. Looks like he just posted > on http://boingboing.net Anyone with a slashdot login want to try posting? I'll do it if nobody else takes this on, but I don't have a login there, so it will just show up as coming from "Anonymo

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Robert Sneidar
Kevin, any chance you can get this into Apple's RRS feed? Bob On Jan 29, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: > We reached out to him as soon as he backed us. Looks like he just posted > on http://boingboing.net > > Kind regards, > > Kevin ___ us

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Kevin Miller writes: > > We reached out to him as soon as he backed us. Looks like he just posted > on http://boingboing.net Yep - looks like Edwin beat me to submitting it. Good on ya. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode ma

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Miller
We reached out to him as soon as he backed us. Looks like he just posted on http://boingboing.net Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ LiveCode: Unleash Your Killer App On 29/01/2013 21:01, "Ben Rubinstein" wrote: >On 29/01/2013 20:32, Mark Wieder wr

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Ben- Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 1:01:55 PM, you wrote: > If you're in contact, please don't wait for a couple of weeks but encourage > him now to post/tweet about the project - his pledge is worth $X, but > spreading the word via BoingBoing or twitter could be worth an order of > magnitude more.

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Trevor- Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 1:00:36 PM, you wrote: > I turned it into a little app I have running that lists the goal as well as > the percentage of total that has been funded. It has given my laptop new > purpose (project is at 7.3%). Do keep in mind that the way kickstarter works is tha

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 29/01/2013 20:32, Mark Wieder wrote: Cory backed the project? !!! I've got some time scheduled with him in a couple of weeks, and I know what we'll be talking about. He's an old-time HyperCardist - check out the list of helpful contributors here and see if you recognise any other names...

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Note though that the sound only plays if the number has changed. So, it's > more of an occasional treat. Not too occasional I hope. The number is changing so quickly I hear beeps almost every check :-) I turned it into a little app I have

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Colin Holgate
Note though that the sound only plays if the number has changed. So, it's more of an occasional treat. Not too occasional I hope. On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > >True. But the pleasant dinging sound in the background that Colin's code > provides makes you smile every 5 min

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Ben- Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 10:19:39 AM, you wrote: > But what both of you miss by not going direct to the source is seeing names of > random backers - I've just seen that Cory Doctorow has backed it, which - if > he also blogs it - massively enhances the chances of success. Cory backed the

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > But what both of you miss by not going direct to the source is seeing > names of random backers True. But the pleasant dinging sound in the background that Colin's code provides makes you smile every 5 minutes :-) -- Trevor DeVore Blue

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread David Bovill
Cory LiveCode? Well I never. On 29 January 2013 18:19, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > But what both of you miss by not going direct to the source is seeing > names of random backers - I've just seen that Cory Doctorow has backed it, > which - if he also blogs it - massively enhances the chances of succ

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
But what both of you miss by not going direct to the source is seeing names of random backers - I've just seen that Cory Doctorow has backed it, which - if he also blogs it - massively enhances the chances of success. On 29/01/2013 13:15, Björnke von Gierke wrote: I like graphs: http://www.

Re: [OSSLC] so far so good...

2013-01-29 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I like graphs: http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode/ mirroring to use, as per previously discussed. On 29.01.2013, at 14:11, Colin Holgate wrote: > This isn't to say that I'm obsessed or anything, but: > > on opencard >checklatest >send "checklat