1.0 celebration?
By glazou on Thursday 24 March 2005, 16:48 - Nvu - Permalink
The end of the tunnel... So we're finally there, in sight of Nvu 1.0. Trust me, it's been a wild ride. I started Disruptive Innovations mid-October 2003 and it really seems to me it was just yesterday morning. Mozillanews wrote about that a year ago, and I have this feeling I did not really sleep between may 2004 and now. Nvu gave me so much work that my movies' and books' todo lists are almost endless. It also gave me tons of happy moments. But since I live in Saint-Germain en Laye and work in Saint-Germain en Laye, I almost did not leave the city in a year and a half. Having two little kids does not help I'm afraid.
If I am strong enough to keep that promise - and nothing is less certain - I will probably change of rythm after 1.0 release. I need to care more about myself or I'll end up at the local hospital.
Unfortunately, I have a dozen of ideas for the future of Disruptive Innovations and I wonder how long I will resist implementing them. Call me a geek, eh.
Speaking of geek attitude, my friend Kevin Lawver asked me how I'm going to celebrate the release of Nvu 1.0. And I have no idea ! It could be cool to meet all local Nvu supporters and fans in a pub in Paris... Suggestions anyone? Who would be interested in Nvu 1.0 t-shirts?-)
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Could be a good Idea (and a good pretext for bob and me to go to Paris) ! For the pub, it will depend on how many persons will come. It could be the Flam's like the Firefox 1.0 party or a more intimist pub... Choose a date, let's see how many people are interested, and then choose a location.
Have you thought about hiring programmers of your calibre and giving them work, than get burned out?
Congratulations Daniel. I wish you every success with NVU. Now take a break so that you are well enough to enjoy all the good reviews you'll be getting.
why are you working alone? there are so many people who i am sure would help you. like with Firefox. there are so many people there. hunting down bugs, sending in suggestions. i think opening a public forum directly on nvu.com would be a good start. NVU has the potential to be a true Dreamweaver rival, but if only one person is working on it, i doubt it will make that
I'd grab an NVU t-shirt! I bought a Firefox and Mozilla shirt the day the store opened... I'd buy an NVU shirt in a heartbeat.
About the Seb's comment, I think It could be very interesting, but some programers really enjoy to work all the day, and all the night(...Actually I do...) and I can also understan you Daniel. But as Hem said, Maybe the Nvu 1.0 Party could be a great oportunity to contact developers to help out, and to get a break!
Anyway unfortunately Paris is too far for me
so when's 1.0PR available for download?
Paris? Alas, for me this only dream
But I'll necessarily have a drink a mug of beer in honour Nvu 
After release FF 1.0 Mozilla Foundation as a token of gratitude has presented FF t-shirts for all translation teams... Whether can Linspire make as? I doubt...
An Nvu t-shirt would be always welcomed. But about a beer or two in France....that would be real far for me :(. Still, I'll celebrate the release with all heart and spirit.
Nvu 1.0 ETA ----> 20050XXX --> please fill the X's soon.
For the future, why not getting the Mozilla community more involved into the project ? as Seamonkey is no more developped, the FoMo has no more standalone neither integrated html editor application.
besides, you may need to focus more on your company and get some rest you really deserve
Good job !
May feel like a while for you...
But it feels like just the other day I stumbled upon Disruptive Innovations. It's great to see what strides composer has taken in that time. It's went from being rather outdated to becoming pretty impressive. I know the people I've showed it to were rather impressed.
It seems to me it's long ago that I installed for the first time Nvu 0.15... I still lived in Switzerland, my computer was still running win2k... Now, I live in France, my computer is a mac (I also have a Linux) and I'm involved in the french localization of Nvu... Many changes...
Oh ! Tee-shirt and party ! Definitely... Congratulations !
Sir:
Thank you for your great job! May I translate it into Traitional Chinese when the version 1.0 release. Because Mr. Lin (moztw.org) is in the army now.
I belong to Tainan Education Network Centre, Taiwan
free.tnc.edu.tw
Tee-shirts ? J'achète. Bouffe ? Si c'est à portée de vélo depuis Paris je viens. Une suggestion ? Bah peut-être une beuverie à la suite de la boubouffe... il y a des bars à eaux très bien sur Paris, de merveilleux endroits où on peut boire sans aucune modération
(pas taper...)
Bonjour! Juste pour dire: Pitié, pas le Flams' ! C'est trop glauque; Un bon petit bar où nous pourrions trinquer la mousse ca me convient. Un t-shirt? Toujours!
Je n'en reviens toujours pas qu'un seul homme soit derrière Nvu. Le résultat est l'égal de ce qui se ferait par une équipe entière de développeurs, et j'imagine que c'est plus efficace puisque tu ne perd pas de temps avec des politicailleries, et des chicanes avec le management (à moins que tu souffre d'un dédoublement de personnalité.)
C'est un travail véritablement surhumain, avec un résultat efficace.
Ton rythme de productivité doit être monstrueusement élevé.
Prend des vacances après 1.0!