[Coco] RE: [Color Computer] PDF/DjVu

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:34 PM 7/18/2005, you wrote:
>Glen,
>
>If you sign up as a "customer" at
>http://www.musicheadproductions.org/store you can sign up for the
>newsletter and insure you will not be missed on all the latest news!  The
>project will take a bit of time (6 months or more) to be completed so I
>hope you are a patient being.  Be assured that I am spending at least 2 to
>3 hours a day on Rainbow related work.
>
>Regards,
>Michael Harwood


Michael,

Will those who volunteer their time to this project be compensated later, 
and if so, what would 6 months of help be worth?

The reason I ask is that a while back I asked to hire a person or persons 
to help put together a C compiler for Portal-9 using source code that is 
already available on the web, and I got some negative comments from people 
who valued their time preciously and thought I was being riduculous with my 
offer.  The result of my asking for help with a C compiler was a total 
failure, especially after tons of posts were made about how much minimum 
wage would have added up to over X number of hours of worki.  :)

Not only did all this make me feel guilty for asking for work from people 
who Do have lives, I ended up giving up and just posting a message on the 
web site that we do need a compiler, and I left it at that.

I see that not only have you gotten impressive response for your project, 
but people seem to trust you highly considering you're rather new 
here.  One of my promises many years ago was to always give back to the 
CoCo community with everything I create or ask for volunteers for, yet my 
long-time established and solid steel presense here didn't have an impact 
on my ability to get a single volunteer out of hundreds of onlookers.

I guess my ultimate question here is: who will be lining their pockets with 
this product?  :)

Anyway, my plans are to purchase this Rainbow on Disc product when it's 
done.  I never owned near enough Rainbow magazines and I will definately 
enjoy stepping back in time to read them.

Also, how did you find and approach Lonnie Falk about this, and did anybody 
try this before and get shot down, etc.?  I think there have been attempts 
in the past from big name CoCo users for getting something out of Lonnie 
and they didn't get anywhere (to the best of my knowledge).

Thanks for understanding my questions and comments,


-- 
Roger Taylor