Today I talked with the director of the Center for Family History and Genealogy here on campus (who also happens to be my employer) and mentioned Beyond, asking whether the Center might be interested in sponsoring it, so to speak. He said it’s quite possible, and that’s very good news because it means I can take a chunk of my work time (probably five hours a week now but around twenty during the summer) and work on Beyond with it and not feel guilty about losing money (bills, bills, bills). :) So I’ll be drafting a proposal pretty soon and will hopefully be able to get it under way before too long.

As far as the current state of Beyond, I still haven’t made the time yet to consolidate all my design sketches and ideas into a single document. But soon! As far as the language goes, I haven’t made up my mind yet. PyObjC looks very nice if only because I won’t have to worry about memory management. :) And Python (or Ruby) would lend itself better to more rapid development. We’ll see…

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