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  Quanta Team Adds Developer, Seeks Support for New App
Applications Posted by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 28/Mar/2004, @00:49
from the most-developers-on-catnip dept.
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! 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 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 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, 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, the author of Flash 4 Linux, got back to me late. I believe what he has started can be made into a tool for both Flash and 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 and consider becoming a sponsor or making a donation. If you do web development this could affect you.

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hmmm
by Bert on Sunday 28/Mar/2004, @04:52
Eric, how much money is needed to pay a developer?

I guess people in some states can easy make a living out of small money.

A kind of GPL/ASP shareware concept would be very good for kde applications development. I believe KDE shall add a donations link to the info dialogue. Also in the download section a donations hint would be very helpful.

I don't understand why distributors shall request money for packaging the free software while developers shall not be paid by users. As Free Software enters the desktop market the business model has to be adjusted. Not the GPL has to change, today users are not only hackers and potential contributors. The ASP Shareware guidelines (not crippleware, no evaluation time expiration ecc.) are compatible with the free and open source software idea. Early Free Software denounced the shareware principle, but you can provide "shareware" under the gpl with open source. shareware then means simply: When you want to use the software please support development by a small donation.
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KDE Only DIstros steep UP
by Kraig on Sunday 28/Mar/2004, @08:22
The KDE only distros like Lycoris and Xandros need to step up to the plate. I'm not aware of any projects that these distros sponsor. Lindows already is sponsoring other projects plus working on somthing in house.
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Another Idea: Shop-an-Improvement
by Anonymous on Sunday 28/Mar/2004, @10:55
http://www.kontact.org/shopping/
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Quanta must support what-you-see-is-what-you-get
by fast on Sunday 28/Mar/2004, @13:36
Quanta is a good application and it can become a great application if it supports WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) like KWORD does, but Quanta is advanced hence it can help web development for the newbies...

My favorite applications in KDE:

1. KWord
2. Kaffeine
3. Kwrite
4. Quanta
5. Kicker
6. KSim
7. KDF
8. KSambaPlugin
9. SMB4k
10.KMail
12.KFontinstaller
13. Konqueror :)
14. Konsole ...

Thanks to all KDE Developers... I appreciate your endeavor and creativity. You people are more "Artists" than just mere programmers! Hats off! to you!!!
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attitude
by chris on Sunday 28/Mar/2004, @17:11
I think this is not a good way to go, i once talked to a developer at a exhibition from Xfree86 about a cool feature and he say they said " yeah nice but i only implement it if you pay me ". This attitude really sucks and brought Xfree86 down.
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theKompany?
by Boris Kurktchiev on Monday 29/Mar/2004, @10:14
What about them. I mean their Quanta Gold doesn't really see much activity from what I can see. Why not talk with them about sponsoring? They sponsor a developer(full or part time) who will work on Quanta and I guess implement feutures that theKompany wants but Quanta doesn't... or something of that sort. Bah anyway it was just a thought that poped in my head while reading the posts.
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