New collaborator presentation

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

"stale" should of course be "stable"! :-D

- Nikolaj

On Nov 12, 2007 6:33 PM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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