A Personal Challenge

[marksmithhfx]

Well, this is a little off topic. I hope I won't get trounced too badly for it.

In the last couple of days, 173 backers (excluding Livecode) have contributed $22,833 towards the Infinite Livecode campaign (or about $130 dollars each). So first a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed because I know times are tough. But I also know this is an incredible deal. First, we expand our developer base from a handful of great contributors in Edinburgh to well, frankly, all of us. Yes, with Infinite all of us can contribute in real and meaningful ways to the development of Livecode. That’s HUGE! Second we get Todd’s wonderful offer of an OPEN SOURCE version of his wrapped WordPress functionality so (a) we can see how to do that and (b) we can build really great e-commerce sites for fun or profit. We get both of these for what? $130 ??!? Wow, that is an amazing deal.

So, here’s my challenge: I know we all know this is worth way more so I just went and DOUBLED my contribution. If you have contributed already I challenge you to do the same. I know, it’s going to hurt. I really do… I’ve been there. But only for a second and then you are going to feel really great about what you’ve just done for Livecode and for yourself personally. I guarantee that. As for the rest, if you have not yet contributed, we need your help too. So I challenge you to contribute what you can. That’s all I ask: contribute what you can. Because in this campaign every dollar is going to count towards something great.

Thanks,

Mark

[RossG]

Make it easy.

Give us a link.

[dave.kilroy]

Ooh Mark if I'd known you were going to place this challenge I would have pledged half as much! But I'll see what I can do (especially if a certain meeting today goes well...)

Here's the link everyone https://livecode.com/project/infinite-livecode/

[marksmithhfx]

Make it easy.

Give us a link.

Sorry Ross, I should have posted a link. I see Dave has already beaten me to the punch.

Grateful to everyone who is taking this campaign seriously and contributing.

Cheers,

Mark

[bn]

Hi Mark,

I agree with you that this is HUGE. Widgets as a bridge to libraries/ native API calls in other languages/ operating systems.

Worth every penny, I pledged quite some of them.

And

Make the final grand target of $70,000 and take LiveCode to Infinity and Beyond.

who on earth would not want to go there?

(I learned from you that "Infinity and Beyond" is a quote from "Buzz Lightyear", a Toy Story character.)

Kind regards
Bernd