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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Who wants to move Quanta forward?
From:       Philip Payne <ppayne () aiweb ! fr>
Date:       2009-12-07 8:37:26
Message-ID: 1260175046.2205.13.camel () orion
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I use Quanta  on a regular basis and would be happy to do a one time
financial contribution  it would be according to my means but averybit
helps...
How would one go about doing this and whare would the money go

I see two quanta related web site
http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/
and
http://quanta.sourceforge.net/
They both have a donate button 
?

Philip 

Le lundi 07 décembre 2009 à 10:03 +0200, Andras Mantia a écrit :
> Hi Werner,
> 
> On Sunday 06 December 2009, Werner Joss wrote:
> > as some of you might know, I've been a longtime quanta supporter
> >  (mainly in terms of sponsoring) and I'm still using it as my
> >  favorite web/php dev tool. unfortunately, the development model with
> >  sponsored work mainly from Andras, did not work out in the long run,
> >  as obviously community support/sponsoring was too small/inconsistent
> >  for even generating a small regular income for Andras to make a
> >  living from.
> 
> This far from being your (as supporters) fault, it is a complex 
> situation that lead to this. Yes, indeed it seems from sponsorship it 
> isn't possible to pay for a developer full time, at least not in some 
> parts of the world. That's why I wanted to make it clear, that even if 
> we get support, this won't mean a payment that you can live from, and 
> there is no long run guarantee. It is more a stimulant.
>  
> >  more. but, if e.g. someone could be found to work on quanta4 for a
> >  limited time until it is usable as a native kde4 application, and
> 
> That is the most challenging, but thanks to this call, I already got 
> some development offers as well. I plan to write a mail about what needs 
> to be done, my ideas about it. Unfortunately I can't do coding, only 
> some kind of mentoring. But if the developers became addicted to it and 
> enjoy the codewriting, there is no need for more. :) I know that, and if 
> you look at most parts of KDE, it is developed like that.
>  But if they won't like, or no developer will start to work for real, 
> then no money can push this forward. Well, probably there is a certain 
> amount of money that would go, but not community support money.
> 
> 
> >  needs some sponsoring to be able to do so, I will surely step up to
> >  contribute.
> > count on me.
> 
> Thank you,
> Andras
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