The "Dato Duo" is also a synth aimed at kids. It allows 2 kids to play together. it is made by a Dutch company called Dato (https://dato.mu). Their latest musical invention the "Dato Drum" had a successful Kickstarter and is shipping now. This drum machine allows even more kids to play together.
PS: As the owner of a Dato Duo I can share you a little secret: it's also fun for adults :)
Had a look at Quatt's website. Just a quick remark:
Requiring to fill in information for a brochure about your product, feels weird & I'm not willing too, but ok. However, automatically agreeing to receiving 'marketing communication' & agreeing with your cookie policy when pressing download is definitely not ok. Not from my personal standpoint, but more importantly also not by law (GDPR) although IANAL. Might be a good idea to tell your marketing colleagues about this. Please remind them not to be behave like assholes. Nobody likes forced "marketing communication"...it's just a euphemism for spam. Take care.
Yes, I ran & still run a Jitsi instance and a website which would connect you to one of 12 participating Jitsi server at random applying to our guidelines in the EU.
My goal was offering a low-barrier open for all way to connect with loved ones. During the peak of the Covid pandemic for many people it was easier to connect with colleagues than family members or friends. So I contacted a few sysadmins and public organizations of whom I knew were running Jitsi and asked if it could be shared via our public website. A few agreed and a few dropped by and wanted to help out. After a few days a commercial hosting company decided to sponsor us with one VPS as well.
Our idea was to connect the servers and use the API to select a server with the lowest load. In the meantime we used a randomizer...we've never used the API after all, the randomizer worked well enough ;)
People told us they've used our free service for yoga classes, library book reading clubs, hackerspaces & celebrating birthdays with grandma.
Overall I'm still very proud what we've achieved in a few days with some servers, opensource software and bit of work.
Many thanks to @saghul, 8x8 and all other people contributing to Jitsi. Thank you!
A similar thing happens in the Open Source WordPress plugin repository.
All of my WordPress plugins are free & Open Source. Most are tiny plugins using functionality (filters, actions) part of WordPress core. Unless WordPress becomes backwards-incompatible they will function perfectly fine for the foreseeable future.
From my perspective these plugins are feature complete & unless there's a bug, don't need any attention from me.
Sadly the WordPress repository expects me to update the version number or else the plugin will be become less visible in search results and a notice will be placed above the plugin's title stating: "This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress."
So for some of my plugins I occasionally 'bump' the version number to make sure people can still find it in the search & for some plugins I just leave it be because I have better things to do. However it didn't feel quite right to keep people using my work in the dark, so I've added a text to communicate this to them. This is the text from my 'Redirect To Homepage' plugin:
"Is this plugin actively being developed?
Yes and no. Let me explain:
I consider this plugin to be feature complete and unless bugs are found there will be no development on this plugin. In other words this plugin is in maintenance mode and will be maintained for the foreseeable future.
Due to other obligations I’m not always able to keep up with WordPress version’s and updating this readme’s ‘Tested up to’ version number. However, unless WordPress significantly changes the way the login_redirect filter works it should work perfectly fine even though the ‘Tested up to’ might be of a lower version number. As always, when in doubt, test it (and when it does give you issues, feel free to leave a comment)."
I think this balances both interests, those of people using (perhaps depending on) my work as well as my own. A similar approach could be used by commercial app stores to restore autonomy & balance interests.
In the Netherlands (Europe), where I reside there are plenty of jobs offering 36 or 32 hours. I think most employers are ok with it since they often also work 36 or 32 hrs. Quite a lot of people share the 'load' of bringing up a family, taking care of parents or sick family members & basic house chores & therefor will (have to) work a bit less than 40hrs.
Reminds me of the Dato Duo I have.
The "Dato Duo" is also a synth aimed at kids. It allows 2 kids to play together. it is made by a Dutch company called Dato (https://dato.mu). Their latest musical invention the "Dato Drum" had a successful Kickstarter and is shipping now. This drum machine allows even more kids to play together.
PS: As the owner of a Dato Duo I can share you a little secret: it's also fun for adults :)