New collaborator presentation

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

Hello Rodrigo

Welcome to the team! :-)

I will let some of the regular rokymoters tell you abut their current
plans, but I can write a few lines about the state of Amarok itself.

Currently we have a stale branch of Amarok ( the 1.4 branch ) that is
currently at version 1.4.7. This branch is basically in maintenance
mode, but it is actively updated with bugfixes and minor improvements
quite often.

The bulk of our development work is currently aimed at Amarok2. This
new verion will be quite different than the 1.4 branch as it aims to
fully utilize all the new technologies made available by the upcoming
KDE4, as well as add a bunch of new features and greatly update the
look of the application. If you go to our homepage ( amarok.kde.org )
and browse the blog archive, you will find many entries on the
progress of, and ideas behind, Amarok2. Also, the upcoming version  is
mostly cross platform, so we expect to release a windows and Mac
version sometimes after the release of the *nix version.

We hope to be able to release Amarok2 in the first part of next year,
sometimes after KDE4 becomes available. Personally, I would like to
see the release of some sort of preview ( alpha or beta? ) around the
time KDE4 is officially released ( I don't know if this is possible
though )

Hope that gave you an idea of the software side of things.

- Nikolaj

On Nov 12, 2007 6:05 PM, Rodrigo Marques <oritemis.frc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> My name is Rodrigo Marques, I am twenty nine years old, and I am project
> leader and senior systems analyst in a financial company in São Paulo,
> Brazil.
>
> Some days ago I subscribe myself as collaborator to Rokymotion in the wiki
> and I hope to able to help the project.
>
> My fist contact with Linux was in 1998, Slackware, and then Debian, but not
> much serious, always academic, or for straight diversion. Only about a year
> and a half I forfeit completely Windows in my home machine and left to
> Gentoo. After some instability problems I decided try Ubuntu and I am
> satisfied with the experience.
>
> My first contact with Amarok was about a year and since that time I felt in
> love by project and its proposal.
>
> I know C and C++, nevertheless this knowledge are academics only and I don't
> program about seven years, so I don't saw any way to help the project. But
> finally  I had  contact with the proposal of Rokymotion and I saw that my
> main abilities, that I use every day, could be of some use, like
> communication capability, taskforce organization, schedule management and
> objectives, shows, collaborate in marketing and strategy definition.
>
> I would like to know of you stage the project actually is, in what direction
> Rokymotion is walking and what is next steps.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rodrigo Marques.
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