From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal on Kickstarter for an embeddable Emacs Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 06:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1339827522 26807 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2012 06:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 06:18:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 08:18:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SfmLG-0006Il-Gx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:18:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58443 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfmLG-0006LY-FU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:18:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfmLD-0006LI-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfmLB-0001Ec-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SfmLA-0001EQ-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SfmL6-0005hb-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from 94-21-239-56.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.239.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-239-56.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:18:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.239.56 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150966 Archived-At: Tom gmail.com> writes: > > This project is not aiming to improve Emacs itself, but it's > worth to keep an eye on nevertheless, because as far as I know it is > the first crowdfunded project which has something to do with Emacs > (or at least with its concepts), so it will be interesting see how it > runs out: > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/568774734/emacsy-an-embeddable-emacs?ref=live > > Apparently, this project failed to raise its funding, but it's not entirely suprising, because the number of people who want to embed an emacs-like interface into their program is probably not very high. The number of Emacs users is certainly much higher, so a fundraising for an actual Emacs feature would have more chance to succeed. Several people added ideas to the EmacsWiki crowdfunding page, so developers who consider working in this model should take a look: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IdeasForCrowdFunding