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- A gap like cannot be closed without corporate and foundation gifts. That said, individual gifts can also contribute to the progress.
As is common with schools, parks districts, etc., the Open Source Lab partners with a 501(c)(3) organization, the Oregon State University Foundation, to accept tax-deductible donations.
For anyone who would like to directly support the Open Source Lab in staying open, please be sure to indicate "Open Source Lab Fund" on the Oregon State Foundation donation page [0]. Note that their form is *not* set up with any tracking to attribute your gift from your clickthrough, and that any general donations to the Foundation will likely *not* support the Lab in this effort to stay open.
[0] https://give.fororegonstate.org/PL1Uv3Fkug, or click through from the general donation page.
- I was being malicious and dropped down onto the hovering pink cube outside the play area on the final level. Once you roll off that pink cube your respawn point is on the cube, leaving you stuck and unable to get back to the main course.
NBD but sharing in case you want this kind of playtesting feedback!
- This line is really interesting:
> The best interests of the company and the mission always come first.
That is absolutely not true for the nonprofit inc. The mission comes first. Full stop. The company (LLC) is a means to that end.
Very interested to see how this governance situation continues to change.
- The author agrees with you. They're saying that the lack of legal protection for fonts is a problem, and that creating an opportunity to challenge that law would be a good thing.
Courts can only weigh in on legal issues when people bring a dispute before the court. In this case, if someone did what the author describes it would trigger a lawsuit from typographers, which would give the court a chance to (re)interpret or overturn the existing law.
- That's awesome, small world indeed. Make Salt Lake looks great.
Yeah I share that conviction. This space is less about creating value and capturing a part of it than creating community (though done well the value created by a thriving community _is_ substantial). And for reasons I've only partially grokked, many people are willing to contribute to a community backed by a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation but not a regular corporation.
- I strongly second the suggestion to explore operating as a non-profit if you continue.
My local incarnation, BARN[0][1] is a financially sustainable nonprofit. However, we wouldn't be sustainable as a for-profit company, certainly not if we had investors chasing a return.
[0] bainbridgebarn.org
[1] Disclosure: I'm the executive director and deeply in love with this place. Happy to connect to share our experiences with anyone seriously considering a similar path.
- Hey it's a Johnnie HN thread. There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I've been very loosely involved in Interintellect[0], which itches a similar scratch and looks spiritually very similar to the Catherine Project, with perhaps less of a focus on great books and a wider, more modern gamut.
For anyone considering Catherine Project, Interintellect, or St. John's College, I heartily recommend them. Diligently reading through deep written work, then discussing it with other people genuinely interested and invested in the work and the dialogue is a wonderful experience and one that's hugely shaped me.
- I don't understand why this is being downvoted. Bankruptcy is a tool to encourage efficient risk-taking and solving otherwise tricky collective action problems for creditors.
There's an unfortunate stigma about bankruptcy in the U.S. which leads to _far_ fewer people/businesses filing bankruptcy than should be.
No one is better off limping along under unsustainable debt, not businesses and not individuals. We need to get rid of this stigma and let people use the tools we put in place to solve these problems.
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- >If the difference between $99 and $25 is make-or-break, you're probably trying to publish a hobby/low quality app anyways.
Or maybe you live in a situation where $74 USD is a meaningful barrier to accessing a market.
>The only people who like webapps and their encroachment on good, native apps are webapp developers because it allows them to use their skillset to build something they don't know how to build.
You're excluding people and organizations who want to maintain a single codebase.
>I've never met a developer who complained about needing a Mac to develop for iOS that has put forth an even halfway decent iOS app.
My takeaway from this is that you've not met a lot of developers outside the U.S. or who have ethical concerns about mandatory hardware / software purchases as prerequisite to market access.
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- >I don't really care if its open source or not if it does what I want it to do
You care about the utility of your editor, and that's fine. Several other comments here try to highlight ways in which open source projects are more pragmatic, like the ability to make modifications yourself or take advantage of community contributions.
All of that is just arguing about utility, though. For many people open source is a moral issue. RMS is a notable example here. And I prefer open source tools for this reason.
If you believe open source software is morally superior to closed source software then the utility considerations are of secondary, or perhaps even zero, importance.
- >Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista... Get them into Stanford, then they have the rest of their life to "fail"
What a terribly unfortunate conception of "failure" and "success" this mindset represents. One that is all to common, but certainly not the only option.
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- Early on at Thinkful we were concerned about being able to consistently find skilled mentors to work with students learning front end web development. We hoped expert developers would find our model of mentorship personally and professionally rewarding but we were far from certain. We've built an outstandingly talented team and I attribute much of our success to filtering specifically for those developers and designers who've already come to this realization and decided to act on it.
- We use Flask at Thinkful in our Python course for precisely this. Ran into some disappointment from folks who'd prefer to dive directly into Django, but from an instructional perspective we'd much rather introduce something comprehensible than ask students to memorize magic words or incantations.
I hope something really fun for you comes out of the unexpected scale.