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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Who wants to move Quanta forward?
From:       Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh () internode ! on ! net>
Date:       2009-12-27 10:54:54
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Andras Mantia wrote, on 05/12/09 02:34:
> Hi,
> 
>  It's been a long time since I posted here, as you probably all know I 
> don't really have time to work on Quanta. I still do free software (KDE) 
> work through KDAB, but as we don't have yet customers demanding a KDE 
> web development tool, Quanta is outside of our radar.
>  I wanted to be able to write such a mail for a long time, and now when 
> I read the post about Krita fundraising 
> (http://dot.kde.org/2009/12/02/krita-team-seeking-sponsorship-take-
> krita-next-level ), I decided that it is time to do it. I know, some 
> from our (ex-)team might not agree, that this is the way to go, but 
> well... ;)
>  Things have changed in the past in my life, and from one who lived from 
> donations and the unselfish support of Eric, I'm in a situation now that 
> I can also offer some monetary support for KDE development, just as I 
> received it in the past. It wouldn't be much, more like around 100 
> euro/month or so. But if I'd find someone enthusiastic to work on Quanta, 
> I'd gladly give it to such a developer.
>  Here is my call to users, who want to see Quanta moving forward: would 
> you join me in such an initiative?
>  Here is my call to developers, whoever is still following the list: 
> would you be interested to do it? 
> 
>  Let me make it clear, this is not for those who want money and do the 
> "job" for the money. This is for those who would like to work on Quanta 
> (or already do on some parts of it). It is a reward for the work. It is 
> a stimulus package. :) 
>  For example maybe you are a student and have to do some 
> afternoon/evening/weekend job to get some money. You could spend your 
> time on hacking instead now. Or something similar.
> 
>  It wouldn't be much as I said. But if it starts to work, I'm sure the 
> big community will support us from time to time. It did in the past, and 
> looking at the other projects (Krita, Amarok for example), it still 
> works.
> 
> Thanks for listening,
> Andras

Sorry for the delay in replying.

I've appreciated the efforts everyone has put into Quanta, and it has 
been one of the main reasons I have not upgraded to KDE 4.X on Debian 
Unstable (I'm running Debian Unstable but have kept KDE 3.5.9/3.5.10 as 
my desktop environment).

I bought a new pc nearly a year ago (AMD64 dual core with on-board 
radeon 3200hd) but still use a PII-266 purchased in 1998 with RAM 
increased to its maximum capacity of 384 MiB, because it is quieter, has 
lower power consumption and runs all applications I would want to apart 
from watching videos. (I have even done kernel git-bisects and 
transcoded a video to DVD format and written the DVD on this machine).

To switch to KDE 4.X, I'd need Quanta to run acceptably including the 
ftp kioslave.

I'd like to support moving Quanta towards that goal as a non C++ 
programmer who is nonetheless happy to compile and build test versions 
and file bug reports and even perhaps contribute cash to developers.

Arthur.

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