Hello all!
After much thought, I've decided to look for a person who is willing to help me out on Dynapad. Duties would be coding, being a bit of moral support, helping out with design.
The sticky point is that fundamentally, Dynapad is a project borne out of my wants and needs. I cringe at phrasing this in a way that may come off as childish, but I think it is a common thing with coders who have very personal projects. I would want to be doing most of the main design of the code, although depending on what was being worked on that could be at varying levels of detail. Dynapad is my baby, and whoever works on it would have to be in sync with my vision at the very least.
But also, the ideal candidate would critique my designs, let me know if I was totally going in the wrong direction, or missed something elegant and simple. The ideal person wouldn't have to be willing to put in a ton of hours, even relatively few would be good- anything would help.
I am a very busy person, much to my annoyance, at least when it comes to working on Dynapad. I go to school full time and will be soon working 30 hours a week. There are also other time-eaters like friends and my SO as well. But Dynapad is suffering, users are hungry for a release, and I feel like I owe them something for all of my promises.
If anyone out there is interested in the possibility, please email me and let me know who you are, what you've done, where you are on the Mystical Smalltalk Path. The perfect person would have moderate experience coding in Smalltalk or any OOP language, and at least a little experience in Morphic.
I have been pondering this for quite a while, but avoiding it, afraid of what it may mean for what I see as my project. Frankly, I'm afraid of Dynapad becoming something else if someone other than myself is involved at the innermost cores. I think that fear may be a little unfounded, as long as the volunteer is willing to at least hear me out as far as how I think things should work in the system.
I suppose I'm most interested in working with just one person- but if there are more than one people willing to specialize, that may be an interesting possibility as well.
If you're interested at all, please email me!
Regards, Aaron
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