A successful Kickstarter needs to be less like Nigel Means-Well, more like the Landmark Trust. This works because it is a real business. Charitable donations pay to restore old buildings, which are then rented out to the public as holiday homes via a second, non-charitable organization whose profits go to sustaining the buildings. "Artists will live here and paint and the public can come and buy their work, and that will pay for maintenance of the property." They might just as well have dynamited the bloody building right there and then.įaced with the exact same problem, the Landmark Trust came up with an ingenious solution. In most cases you had well-intentioned twits pitching the repurposing of (say) an 18th century Shropshire manor house into an arts commune. Each project had to explain how the restored building would save itself from sliding off into penury again. If new readers flock to join the nostalgia buffs willing to spend $50 a book, then it becomes a viable business.Ībout a decade ago, there was a show on British television called Restoration.The idea was to get the viewers to vote which of several worthy but crumbling old buildings would get lottery funding. Its main value is as a publicity campaign to make people aware that Way of the Tiger is back. Of course, that's not all a Kickstarter campaign does. Profit is not the right word anyway, as the hundreds of man-hours that Richard S Hetley, Mikaël Louys, David Walters and others put into running the WOTT Kickstarter campaign were purely a labour of love You could say, in effect, that Kickstarter took all their unpaid efforts at one end and turned those into a couple of thousand bucks to pay editors and artists with. That all has to be paid for by the profit margin, not the whole amount raised. And then there's editing and typesetting. (Everyone agree? Thought so.) An awesome cover image too that must hold its own beside Kevin Jenkins's classic paintings. It must have all-new illustrations by Russ. In contrast, FL book 7 needs to be written. Printing, packaging and postage eats up most of what remains.Īnd Way of the Tiger was already written - six books of it, at any rate - and the new artwork was able to build on what Bob Harvey and the cover artist had aleady done. The text must be scanned, cleaned up and edited. Nobody actually gets to take home forty thousand dollars for The Way of the Tiger. But if you're thinking it would be a shoo-in on Kickstarter, I do just have to point out a couple of caveats. There will be a paperback edition from Fabled Lands Publishing sometime next year.įabled Lands book seven? It's the inevitable question. If you didn't have enough money to buy one of the full-cover hardbacks, don't despair. I don't know what's going on with quiff boy and those other fellows in Bob Harvey's picture above, but the Way of the Tiger campaign on Kickstarter has now concluded and it was an outstanding success.
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Let me write down what every developer is working on.ĭmitry is helping voronwe13 (a very new, but a very promising volunteer) on new types of brush tips and textures, which allows for real-time, quick and easy impasto effects, but he says he’ll come back to bugs soon. So, yeah… the resource rewrite isn’t finished yet. On the last sprint I started working on bundle manager and resource manager, but after I implemented all functionalities, it turned out that I need a precise plan for the resource manager – I created a mockup, I put it up on and started working on something else, my pet project of sorts: Wishes Manager. In the end, I believe that on the resource rewrite I was the one working the most in the last several months, but even I wasn’t working on it all the time. Additionally some of the developers took their time off, be it for family reasons, health reasons or any other personal reasons. Mixing those two up results in the wildest errors.Īnother thing we’ve been busy with are regressions, mostly crashes with Colorize Mask, onion skin and animation files and the Transform Tool. Python is particularly tricky: on Windows there are two different Pythons, one (must be installed on the system) is for building Qt, one needs to be built and it provides Python scripting for Krita. It’s a boring, tedious, frustrating job, which I could taste at the very beginning (with just updating Krita’s dependencies on Windows) around January, but later it was mostly dealt with by Ivan, Dmitry and Boudewijn. Both of it took several months to rule out (we’re dealing with it since January) and notarization still has some issues. We had quite a lot of issues with building Krita on Windows and Mac, especially Python scripting and notarization on Apple that is now required for the program to be run on a standard user’s Mac. However as much as we wanted to focus on the resource rewrite, external factors ruled it out again and again. We assigned more developers to the resource rewrite task and we had two sprints: one in October, focused on getting those developers (me, Wolthera and Dmitry) engaged in the task, going to BlenderCon and real life meeting with some of Krita’s business partners, and second one in February, this time focused entirely on resource rewrite and describing the resource rewrite design decisions to the last developer (Ivan) who wasn’t there in October. In October we already knew that fundraiser in 2019 is not going to happen and that the resource rewrite needs quite a bit of work as well. Last summer our plan was simple: get the resource rewrite done, fix as many bugs as possible, release 4.3.0 with resource rewrite and make a fundraiser for next year of development. Now, a half a year later, the situation is much different. In October last year we were focused and the direction was clear. In the ‘Work with’ field, click Add to add the Zend Studio update site. Now, heres a definitive guide to making the most of this breakthrough development environment. The Available Software dialog is displayed. The definitive, comprehensive guide to Zend Studio for EclipseZend Studio for Eclipse gives millions of PHP/LAMP developers world-class tools for building state-of-the-art web applications. Starting today the story is the same for Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE 2010 with SP1, TEE 11 Beta). From Eclipse’s Menu Bar, go to Help Install New Software. whereas Visual Studio Team Explorer users only had to purchase a CAL – the Visual Studio Team Explorer software has always been a free download (TE 2008, TE 2010, TE 11 Beta) for users who had a license to access a TFS server.Team Explorer Everywhere users had to purchase both a Client Access License (CAL) and the Team Explorer Everywhere software,.Starting today, we are eliminating the requirement to purchase Team Explorer Everywhere separately. The blog post " Even Better Access to Team Foundation Server" by Brian Harry MS announces: Install Zend Studio by running the Zend Studio executable file and following the instructions in. TAGS zend eclipse studio code framework development tools debug integration. There is a branded version of Eclipse called Zend Studio but it is pretty expensive. (March 2012, mentioned in the comments by Buck Hodges, Development manager for Microsoft Team Foundation Server): Contents, or from the Eclipse Online Documentation site. English Deutsch Français Español Português Italiano Român Nederlands Latina Dansk Svenska Norsk Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Türkçe Suomi Latvian Lithuanian esk. As i have download the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) but its a separate eclipse studio only, but i want to use it from my already installed eclipse. ( thijs confirms in the comment: " its free with an MSDN ( Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN) account")
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