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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am currently a moderator of the kicad-devel yahoo group
and a qucs mailing list moderator. I have been following the discussions on ktechlab
devel mailing list for quite a while</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>and I take an interest in the project.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I asked some time ago about setting up a yahoo group for the
ktechlab project but there was some resistance to my suggestion. The 2 yahoo
groups associated with Kicad (1 user and 1 developer)have been a big success and
the developers group in particular has attracted a lot of serious developers to
the project. I helped to translate the original French documentation into
English a while ago. I set up a yahoo group to attract bilingual translators
and this resulted in a team that completed the job.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I think that Ktechlab needs to attract more attention and a
user group could be a good way of doing this. This could later spin off into a separate
developer group if needed. The KDE4 porting effort is going to need more people
to get involved.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Anyway please let me know if I can help?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>David. </span></font></p>
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