<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Thanks Ken for your technical note. It is great. About Free Software contributions, it is a subtle balance between self competences, motivations, self-interest and desire to learn new things. As most of us are volunteer, one key point is really motivation and self-interest. To keep the rock rolling, volunteers are well advised to both contribute in a mixture of what they like the most and the needs of the Cuis community. The first point is aligned with one internal interest, short sighted. The second point, while of lower internal interest, improves the motivation in the longer term by improving self-confidence: "I contribute something useful to other, I am useful, I am cool.". The human is social animal ;-) Best Hilaire <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 06/08/2021 à 04:23, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev a écrit : </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:83fb451bae8851fe8e9c2b463007a83a@whidbey.com">Background: The OpenSmalltalk VM is a commons, that is, a resource managed by its users. Because the VM "just works", we tend not to think much about all the work that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen, and so, IMHO, we have not been paying much attention to doing our oversite job. </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- GNU Dr. Geo <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drgeo.eu">http://drgeo.eu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.drgeo.eu">http://blog.drgeo.eu</a></pre> </body> </html>