Slowly it all takes shape, but it’s not automatic either. Another line, another service turned on, another small bug to solve and an inch closer to a launch.

What we’re attempting here is simple enough on the surface, but in our case, we’re trying to do it on a budget of nearly zero. There’s no publisher here, no big sponsors although we’ll certainly keep the PayPal tip-jar in plain view—taking this software from a single-site setup to a multiheaded open public service turns out to have it’s share of spills and chills.

It’s tedious and there’s the usual heap of investigative detective work isolating the issues, but this is the easy part. The hard part is left to everyone else: the story-telling. I can build the book, I can keep ink in the pen, but it’s all of you who must tell the story.