[OSSLC] so far so good...

[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 ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
LiveCode: Unleash Your Killer App




On 29/01/2013 21:01, "Ben Rubinstein" <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:

>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...
>
>http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~pinto/hc1.html
>
>(in fact I think he worked at Voyager at one time - true, Colin?)
>
>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.
>
>The drive is going gangbusters right now - but that's probably most from
>the 
>converted.  When we exhaust them, we're going to need to talk to the rest
>of 
>the world, and convince them about the value of this incredibly
>complicated 
>and hard to explain product.  That's going to be hard (but my guess is
>the 
>easiest sell, albeit only to those with longer memories, is going to be
>"It's 
>HyperCard!  For the 21st century! And open source so they can't kill it
>again!") - and before we can even make that argument, we first have to
>reach 
>people.  So influencers beyond our immediate community will be essential.
>
>Ben
>
>
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