TI e-mails various community members and puts Lua tool on TI Education website

[TIfanx1999]

TI doing something that the community appreciates... They haven't done that in a while.
Hopefully this is the start of a new era of friendliness from TI, but perhaps I am just to hopeful

I've been around the community for a while, and I kind of feel the same way, but I'm still really unsure what to think. It's been SO long since TI and the community have even remotely been on the same page, and I'm wary of them burning us again. I'd guess many others that have been around the community for a long time feel this way as well.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Yeah the issue is that they were on our side since 1997, then 10 years later they stopped and went the way Sony did. Now they're slowly going on our side again, but who knows if they won't start controlling what we do with our calcs again in a few years?

[ruler501]

I've only been in the community for the past year so I don't have the wel of kindness for TI only suspicion

[calcdude84se]

DJ, we can at least enjoy it while it lasts

[pianoman]

I've only been in the community less than a month, but we can always hope this is the new version of TI.

[ruler501]

We will all hope that pianoman, just some of us are unable to believe it after all TI had one

[Dingus]

We will all hope that pianoman, just some of us are unable to believe it after all TI had one

I have to wonder if this about face is the result of a change in management at ti?  If so it will probably last.  If not, then it may be just a temporary condition.  Another consideration is will this change allow interesting games for the nspire that students will play in class the way it used to be?  If teachers complain TI will have to do something to keep them happy. 

[ruler501]

TI will forever follow the teachers. We really need someone(uberspire) to make a dev calc that is completely open. We don't need it for tests just for development of fun games and utilities

[JustCause]

Meh. The worst they can do is take it away. I'm happy.

[JosJuice]

Did Omnimaga get an email? We're like the most active community developing Lua Oh and TI-Bank!

Either way, it's nice to see TI interested in us and let's hope they allow C and ASM too

Nope, but maybe they doN't know us yet. While we are very active, it doesn't mean they know us much. After all, Detacheds Solution was less active than MaxCoderz and UTI back then, yet it's DS that was affiliated with TI.

I'm pretty sure that they know about us. There have been many links to us on the Nspire Google Group when they were discussing stuff like 3.0.1. However, they might have reasons for choosing to not send an e-mail to us...

[Stefan Bauwens]

This is sounding good.

[Deep Toaster]

I've only been in the community for the past year so I don't have the wel of kindness for TI only suspicion

A few years ago you'd need only send them an email and they'd give you any info you wanted. And when you made a useful developer's tool/guide, they'd post it publicly on the education.ti.com site.

:'(

[ruler501]

I can't even imagine modern TI doing that

[DJ Omnimaga]

We will all hope that pianoman, just some of us are unable to believe it after all TI had one

I have to wonder if this about face is the result of a change in management at ti?  If so it will probably last.  If not, then it may be just a temporary condition.  Another consideration is will this change allow interesting games for the nspire that students will play in class the way it used to be?  If teachers complain TI will have to do something to keep them happy. 

Yeah I'm wondering about that too. Maybe with the other strategy sales were poorer or they got a bad reputation due to the bugs.

[pianoman]

Although, in all fairness, you can't really blame TI for following the teachers... they are a business, and the teachers and schools do make up most of their revenue.
Not to say I condone of that, of course...