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List:       quanta
Subject:    Re: [Quanta] We need sponsorship help!
From:       Yannick Mortier <Yannick_Mortier () gmx ! net>
Date:       2006-03-25 22:38:35
Message-ID: 4425C66B.3060302 () gmx ! net
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Hello Eric,
get well soon! I'm sorry I can't donate any money as I still go to 
school and don't have much money.
I really like Quanta as I think it is the best IDE for web applications 
available. I hope that the users will donate enough money for
the project. Also I wish that everything will go well for your job.

Best wishes

Yannick Mortier


Eric Laffoon schrieb:
> Hi all,
> Sorry to have been inactive on the list for a while. I will be much more 
> active soon. Right now we have a pressing need for funding. Several 
> circumstances bring this up. For one, we have had six (6) donations this year 
> outside of our sponsorships. For another I have been ordered to bed rest by 
> my doctor and have not been able to make up the difference. The new funds 
> transfering mechanism we use limits how much I can pay Andras every month so 
> I need to get more funding before the end of the month. As a final note it's 
> my birthday monday. I turn 49 (shudder) and that's pretty much on hold due to 
> illness and doctor bills. To add to my sadness our best efforts were unable 
> to prevent the untimely death of Max, our oldest cat, who died just after 
> midnight the first day of spring. You can see Max at http://kittyhooch.com. 
> The address below is where you can make a difference.
>
> http://kdewebdev.org/donate.php
>
> If you would like a little more personal information read on. Some of you know 
> this time 2 years ago I became ill with what appeared to be typhus but by the 
> time all the tests were in I tested negative. Late last year my dentist said 
> my blood pressure was too high for a dental cleaning. When it happened again 
> this year I went to see my doctor who promptly sent me to the emergency room. 
> After a few hours I was sent home with a prescription and I went back to my 
> doctor, a naturopath, and we set up a nutritional regimen along with a 
> mandate for bed rest. I bought a blood pressure monitor and now I believe 
> that I suffer from "white coat syndrome". My blood pressure measures 
> substantially higher in a doctors office. So it's not like I'm minutes away 
> from a heart attack or stroke, but it's still in the risk zone. Prior to this 
> I had gotten too busy to go to the gym last year and I had trouble with 
> concentration and stress. In the last month I started getting headaches, 
> which I never had before, and I was not able to do much work or deal with 
> much stress. For this reason I stopped reading a lot of my mail but I had 
> problems sleeping which contribute to things. In retrospect I felt wonderful 
> after aKademy last year and within two weeks of getting home I felt like I 
> needed a vacation. After a week and a half under my doctors care I'm feeling 
> better. I can concentrate to program for an hour or two at a time whereas I 
> was finding it difficult for 30 minutes after which I had a headache and 
> could not continue.
>
> The outlook for my health is good. It's possible I'm suffering from something 
> known as "syndrome X" where a collection of numbers spiral out of control by 
> feeding back upon each other. In such a case normalizing these numbers 
> neutralizes the problem. No matter what I know I have no internal damage and 
> a competent doctor committed to a nutritional approach to my health. It's 
> just a matter of time. The objective is a non prescription result.
>
> The down side to this has been the additional stress of this year. We are 
> forced to relocate part of our business and since it's seasonally sensitive 
> there is a great deal of urgency. If all goes as we hope it will we will see 
> 10-20 times more raw materials for a several fold increase in income. I can 
> use that to expand my role in free software development because it's a cause 
> a believe in. I hardly expect our users to support my business, but at this 
> time I think it's important my business not risk it's ability to better 
> support my family and this project. I need our users to help me at this time.
>
> There are several things we're trying to get done that will be exciting for 
> Quanta as well as Kommander. Obviously it's been difficult for me to do my 
> part. I hope to see that change as my health improves. Along with this Andras 
> and also Michal have additional expenses and responsibilities coming their 
> way. It's important to me to be able to create a better mechanism to fund 
> their work. That will require me to have time and money and I'm working on 
> that. For now if you could help me to get Andras paid up on time and maybe 
> have something left over to celebrate getting even older that would be great.
>
> Thanks again to all who have contributed and wished us well.
>   

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