[OpenVerse] Fwd: Re: OpenVerse Visual Chat

[Cruise <cruise@openverse.org>]

Hyeas,


Wanted to forward tigert's reply to my letter here.

Enjoy.. He's a really greay guy I think.


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Subject: Re: OpenVerse Visual Chat
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:37:01 -0800
From: Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert@gimp.org>


On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:07:12PM -0500, Cruise wrote:
> tigert,
> 
>    I wanted to take the time in email to personally thank you for your
> interest in OV. Often, i'm bombarded with questions, suggestions, bug
> reports, and the like when I'm in chat and it's hard for me to just chat
> and say things to any one person.
> 
>    Your support of OV and your VERY kind comments and sensible critisizms
> (sp) really get us motivated to create a better product over all and
> (IMHO) the users are just as if not more important than the coders of an
> OpenSource application as they provide the ideas which we implement in the
> community application.

Wow thanks :)

>    Like it or lump it, you are a celebrity in our virtual community and we
> all respect every single sylable you speak. Perhaps we all feel a bit
> insignificant in comparison to tigert,lunus,alan,the whole kde and gnome
> crews. but the truth is, without talent like yours and theirs driving the
> movement to software that does not suck we would just be a bunch of small
> knit nothings.

Actually, without each other we all wouldnt be here. Without the Gimp hackers
I wouldnt be here etc.. It's really great when we need each other :)

 
>    The fact is that what when people meet you, alan, alan's wife, linus (I
> never met linus) and other OS heros (even if only online) and discover
> that (OH MY GOD) these are people! They cuss. they have opinions I don't
> share, these are PEOPLE! This really helps the community and your recent
> involvement in OV as a visitor and links from your web site have really
> made the synapse happen for our users.

Did you get more people there after the linking btw? OpenVerse is really fun
thing. Being in my kitchen with all the folk was really fun :)

> 
>   In closing, thanks again for helping to promote our [silly] OpenSource
> Project and we hope to see you often in the futuree. I'm copying this
> letter to the OpenVerse mailing list because I'm sure many of them feel
> the same way I do.

Thanks. 

In case you are serious about the GNOME port (as a separate app perhaps to
maintain the portability, dunno) - it would be interesting to see a gnome
version - it could even support PNG avatars with alpha channels :) Oh man it
would rock. But need to sleep ..

thanks for the nice mail :)

I'll pop into openverse sometime again

Tuomas

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