I always hoped, but never really believed, that engineering alone was enough bring a product to the attention of the masses, so I planned to spend this year travelling round Europe, coaxing some more early adopter communities into making the right software choice. But some thing is going right. I hardly even got an interview in the cities I visited, but past learning experiences must be paying off.
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. James Madison
I was hugely gratified to learn the other day that the long established Madison Hours has picked up the marketplace module and is using it to "add a LETS system to the Madison Hours currency system to expand usability of our trading network". Besides them, there are now around 20 live installations of the module of which I'm responsible for less than a quarter; in consequence I have officially stopped chasing individual communities and settled in Turin, Italy for the summer.
The next thing I never really believed was a community of developers and users would aggregate around my software, but Community Forge will soon have 5 core members! Exciting times!
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