whoa, I'm doing this :)
You know, I happen to be the host of this party here at wikiloops,
and while some of you have had a chance to meet me in person at some past wikiloops meeting,
there are probably a lot of people on wikiloops who are not aware I do make any music,
as I have not really participated in any collaborations on wikiloops for some time.
After writing the last developers blog entry about a week ago,
in which I mused a bit about the power of making music and how I'm currently enjoying some private hausmusik with my two year old son, I felt like capturing some of this,
and here I am sharing the result with you,
hoping it will make you feel as good as the captured moment felt to us.
Before you dive in, let me tell you two things:
What you are about to see there is not intended as any kind of performance,
my son just asked "Could we do 'you drum, I spin' ? ", which he frequently asks lately, so I just asked him if we should do that in our barn and take the camera along.
So, this is more of a 10-minute percussion impro plus some love - I didn't even have a bassdrum pedal on that set, and it's the cameras onboard mic, so don't expect any film production magic here.
Once I am at it, let me add some more personal remarks, as it is the end of 2022 and we are virtually sharing this moment here, listening.
Thanks for taking the moment, time is a scarce resource, so I honestly do appreciate it.
Here I sit, the "Zuckerberg of wikiloops", waving at "his" community at the end of the year. quite weird.
What I would like to get of my chest is this:
I would like to apologize for a few things which I feel weren't great towards wikiloops. I am quite aware that - from the wikiloops users point of view - it may have looked as if I had given up on doing things like wikiloops meetings (the last one was 2018... darn), quite a lot of messages aimed at my inbox remained unanswered in the past two years (I am sorry), and yes, I have neither been able to present the wikiloops app I started coding in 2021,
nor have I finished the announced migration of the wikiloops servers. Thinking about it, I need to add the still missing transparency report on 2021 to that list of not-so-great things.
Take my apology for that, I just didn't make it happen, that's the truth.
Instead I focused on getting our family home into good shape (check out some images of the barn-to-barnadise conversion project on my profile if you like), getting back into some ordered 9-5 day job to pay the bills and spending time with the little one. Maybe you can estimate my amount of thankfulness towards the volunteer moderators on wikiloops who really kept the project in shape while I was more or less off to other things. I just hope they are aware I am aware ... thanks folks, you know who you are.
I am not going to offer any new years resolutions which may turn out hard to keep, but at the same time,
I feel quite positive things concerning wikiloops will change to the better in 2023.
To reveal as much: For the first time in wikiloops history, I am currently collaborating with someone on the actual code of wikiloops (something that was completely reserved to me before), and we have spent loads of hours the past three months restructuring the code base to make it easier to maintain in the future, preparing the project for future updates.
Just take this bit of information and above video as signals of "look, the fire is still burning on the loops" :)
Thank you.
For reading this, for sharing the moment, for understanding, for the music, for the financial support to keep the servers bills paid despite the ever growing archive size of wikiloops.
<3
Have a happy start into a good year 2023
yours
Richard
You know, I happen to be the host of this party here at wikiloops,
and while some of you have had a chance to meet me in person at some past wikiloops meeting,
there are probably a lot of people on wikiloops who are not aware I do make any music,
as I have not really participated in any collaborations on wikiloops for some time.
After writing the last developers blog entry about a week ago,
in which I mused a bit about the power of making music and how I'm currently enjoying some private hausmusik with my two year old son, I felt like capturing some of this,
and here I am sharing the result with you,
hoping it will make you feel as good as the captured moment felt to us.
Before you dive in, let me tell you two things:
What you are about to see there is not intended as any kind of performance,
my son just asked "Could we do 'you drum, I spin' ? ", which he frequently asks lately, so I just asked him if we should do that in our barn and take the camera along.
So, this is more of a 10-minute percussion impro plus some love - I didn't even have a bassdrum pedal on that set, and it's the cameras onboard mic, so don't expect any film production magic here.
Once I am at it, let me add some more personal remarks, as it is the end of 2022 and we are virtually sharing this moment here, listening.
Thanks for taking the moment, time is a scarce resource, so I honestly do appreciate it.
Here I sit, the "Zuckerberg of wikiloops", waving at "his" community at the end of the year. quite weird.
What I would like to get of my chest is this:
I would like to apologize for a few things which I feel weren't great towards wikiloops. I am quite aware that - from the wikiloops users point of view - it may have looked as if I had given up on doing things like wikiloops meetings (the last one was 2018... darn), quite a lot of messages aimed at my inbox remained unanswered in the past two years (I am sorry), and yes, I have neither been able to present the wikiloops app I started coding in 2021,
nor have I finished the announced migration of the wikiloops servers. Thinking about it, I need to add the still missing transparency report on 2021 to that list of not-so-great things.
Take my apology for that, I just didn't make it happen, that's the truth.
Instead I focused on getting our family home into good shape (check out some images of the barn-to-barnadise conversion project on my profile if you like), getting back into some ordered 9-5 day job to pay the bills and spending time with the little one. Maybe you can estimate my amount of thankfulness towards the volunteer moderators on wikiloops who really kept the project in shape while I was more or less off to other things. I just hope they are aware I am aware ... thanks folks, you know who you are.
I am not going to offer any new years resolutions which may turn out hard to keep, but at the same time,
I feel quite positive things concerning wikiloops will change to the better in 2023.
To reveal as much: For the first time in wikiloops history, I am currently collaborating with someone on the actual code of wikiloops (something that was completely reserved to me before), and we have spent loads of hours the past three months restructuring the code base to make it easier to maintain in the future, preparing the project for future updates.
Just take this bit of information and above video as signals of "look, the fire is still burning on the loops" :)
Thank you.
For reading this, for sharing the moment, for understanding, for the music, for the financial support to keep the servers bills paid despite the ever growing archive size of wikiloops.
<3
Have a happy start into a good year 2023
yours
Richard
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