[dot] Quanta Team Adds Developer - Seeks Support for New App

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1080463793/

From: Eric Laffoon <sequitur at kde.org>
Dept: most-developers-on-catnip
Date: Sunday 28/Mar/2004, @10:49

Quanta Team Adds Developer - Seeks Support for New App
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   The Quanta team has been growing in volunteer developers, but the
amount of work to make a world class killer application is daunting.
Community support has enabled me to take the next step and sponsor
another developer!
[http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main2.php?newsfile=mrudolf] As it happens
we also have the opportunity to bring some killer features to our web
development suite, but this will require some help from the community
[http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main1.php?actfile=donate] to help some
additional developers. So while I want to bring some good news to the
community I also need to ask for a vote of support too.

     Fortunately community support has been good. My thanks to our
supporters! I have gone from the sole sponsor of Andras to where I only
have to pay a little bit of his monthly income. Andras's full time
effort has paid huge dividends
[http://bugs.kde.org/reports.cgi?product=quanta&output=show_chart&datasets=NEW%3A&datasets=ASSIGNED%3A&datasets=REOPENED%3A&datasets=UNCONFIRMED%3A&datasets=RESOLVED%3A&banner=1]
to Quanta development as any user who has interacted with us will
attest. I'm very excited to announce Michal Rudolf, the author of Knowit
[http://knowit.sf.net],  will be joining our team! I hope the community
will join me in welcoming him as well as helping me to move him from
part time to full time in the coming months. As the attached story
points out Özkan Pakdil [http://dot.kde.org/1071590847/], the author of
Flash 4 Linux, [http://f4l.sf.net] got back to me late. I believe what
he has started can be made into a tool for both Flash
[http://www.openswf.org/] and SVG [http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/] and
that if it's done right it could be very useful for rounding out the
package of an application set that can attract web designers from
Windows to KDE. It would add new capabilities for those of us developing
web sites on KDE. We want to get community input and do it right, but we
also need a vote of financial support to enable these developers to
proceed. Have a read
[http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main2.php?newsfile=mrudolf] and consider
becoming a sponsor
[http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main1.php?actfile=donate#sponsor] or
making a donation
[http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main1.php?actfile=donate#donate]. If you
do web development this could affect you.   Our announcement
 [http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main2.php?newsfile=mrudolf]