With TWO HOURS TO GO left on Spritely's supporter drive I am gonna give a LIVE THREAD about why you should support @spritely and why I am SO PROUD OF THE WORK WE ARE DOING HERE!

"Christine this is really too much"

I appeal to you one final time, one last attempt to thirstpost to a Very Particular Kind of Person into donating to the Spritely Institute

Here is me holding an ORIGINAL COPY of Guy L. Steele's dissertation, RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME

Please donate to the Spritely Institute https://spritely.institute/donate/

Okay maybe the "let's outraise Free Our Feeds" wasn't my one and only shallow fundraising post I am not sorry

@simon_brooke @cwebber good times, that was the text for the Programming Languages and Paradigms course I took in 1996

@simon_brooke @cwebber (got me, I donated)

@va2lam @simon_brooke

@va2lam @simon_brooke (thank you!)

@spritely $87.3k

@spritely $87.7k omg it's nearly .5k in 5 minutes O_O

@spritely 30 minutes left to go aaaaaaaaa

@spritely If we pass $90k before the top of the hour I will make a celebratory animation

If we pass $100k before the top of the hour I will make TWO celebratory animations!!!!

@cwebber Worked for me and a friend in last 10 minutes. Go go go

@spritely Oh man we are at 12 minutes to go and $88.5k!!! I might have to make that animation! https://spritely.institute/

Only 1.5k left to go if you want me to make a lil' celebratory animation about succeeding at our Spritely campaign fundraiser goals!

@spritely TEN MINUTES REMAINING

@spritely SEVEN MINUTES REMAIN
$88.7k!!!

SO CLOSE

@spritely FIVE MINUTES REMAINING

$88.8k!!! https://spritely.institute/donate/

Can we cross the $90k line? I WILL MAKE AN ANIMATION

CAN WE DO IT

@spritely FOUR MINUTES TO GO AND WE JUST CROSSED $90k!!!!! https://spritely.institute/donate/

I OFFICIALLY HAVE TO MAKE A CELBRATION ANIMATION

@spritely ONE MINUTES REMAIN https://spritely.institute/donate/

@spritely THAT'S IT WE DID IT! https://spritely.institute/donate/

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Nearly $90.5k! Holy smokes!

I'll start working on that celebration animation tomorrow!

(You can still donate if you want but officially the campaign is OVER! HORRAY!)

@cwebber well now that you mention libreoffice:

FOSDEM 2025 - Distributed real-time collaboration for Writer - a first prototype

(fosdem.org)

I am not sure if the video is out yet

@cwebber is there a python binding on the roadmap, or am I gonna need to learn scheme?