Kickstarter

Hi everyone,

I want to thank you all for supporting Emacsy. Unfortunately, we did not make our funding target, which is certainly disappointing.  One of the nice things about failure is it often offers greater opportunities for learning than success does.  If there is perhaps a better way to fund and market Emacsy, I'd be happy to hear it.

I'm not sure what to do now. Part of me wants to treat the kickstarter as a quick, cheap way of vetting ideas. Since the kickstarter failed, maybe I shouldn't invest any further work in Emacsy. Another part of me wants to trudge on ahead despite the failure.

A little while back, I received an email from Richard Stallman, the father of GNU Emacs, GCC, and the Free Software Movement. He was curious about Emacsy's goals. I explained them as best I could. He said, "I see. It sounds useful." IT SOUNDS USEFUL, he said! Well, I took that as a big compliment.

Stallman asked me to consider licensing Emacsy under the GPL rather than the LGPL. Stallman has had a tremendous influence on me, so I take his suggestions very seriously. After a long, hard think on the matter, I wrote back to Stallman and said that I did not want to retract my commitment on kickstarter to release Emacsy under the LGPL. Now that the kickstarter is finished, though, I may reconsider the license.

Stallman also asked me if I'd consider making Emacsy an official GNU project.

So I'm not exactly sure what comes next for Emacsy and me, but I wanted to thank you all for your support.

-Shane

Hi everyone,

Emacsy has less than 24 hours left.  Unfortunately, it looks like Emacsy may not reach its funding target, but I've heard that some kickstarter projects experience a boost of pledges at the very end.  If you feel inclined to try to pitch in for this last ditch effort, please link, twitter, and status update to let interested parties know.  And if you're a redditor and hacker news person, upvote these links:

http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/v1pme/last_chance_for_emacsy_an_embedable_emacslike/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4112605

Thank you all for your support!

-Shane

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to provide another short demo of the Emacsy prototype. In this demo, I show file loading and watching with a barebones text editor. I show Emacsy consuming Open Sound Control (OSC) events with my robot simulator; you can extend Emacsy to consume whatever events you like. Finally, I show two different ways to execute macros. The convention macro replays a set of recorded events in quick succession, which doesn't help me control my robot. However, I can replay the same macro back that preserves the time between events. And this doesn't arrest my command loop—I don't have to wait for it to finish. I can continue entering commands while the macro plays. It's a lot of fun to work with.  

With respect to the kickstarter progress, we are over the hump in terms of the funding time period. Unfortunately, we're not quite over the hump with respect to funding the project. So please link, tweet, and facebook the project that way we can make Emacsy a reality!

-Shane

Hello everyone,

First, thank you so much for all your support!  The response to Emacsy has been overwhelmingly positive.  I have received a lot of questions about the implementation as people are trying to understand how Emacsy will work and whether it'll work for them.  To answer these questions, I've written up a minimal Emacsy example program, so you can imagine what embedding Emacsy into your own program will look like. 

http://gnufoo.org/emacsy/minimal-emacsy-example.pdf

Thank you for your time and support.

Best regards,

Shane