[Digikam-devel] idea

[Murphy, James (Tech)]

Hi there!

I have been a linux user and networking consultant here in the New York New Jersey area for the past 8 years, For the past 1 year I have watched as distro after distro comes on the scene and still gnu/linux make no real inroads into the desktop market.Yet it is stable ,free, most of the applications are free and it is virtually imune to virus attacks and worms ect ect .... Until last night I was at a loss I happened to be at a friends house he baught a new apple ppc g5 a few months ago and was installing ilife on it last night,  we decided to play with it this is what linux needs a multimedia/graphics suite just like this .
I am contacting you as the main developer of digikam to see if you would be interested in some form of a project that would involve digikam ,a audio editing app a movie making app and a dvd making app similer to the ilife suite.all the apps are there in linux already but to pull them all together so that it would more or less be a drag and drop unified application would I think be the one thing that could swing the desktop market towards open source. I am  not a programmer alas but I will front some money by way of hardware a website and documentaion .I believe I have enough of contacts within Ibm and novel and some possably in redhat to help out with some further financial help .THE AIM i THINK WOULD BE TO GET 1 INTEGRATED APP that would say be able to edit audio, add the audio into either a photo gallery or a video gallery and produce home video dvd's vcd's or picture slideshow vcd's or dvd'd.
Let me know what you think and if you would be interested and what applications you think would be suited to this project.

Thanks

Jim Murphy
201-385-4090
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