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Re: flash
by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 17/Oct/2004, @12:13

I don't know what's wrong with it, other than it never compiled for me. I believe the other interface people have said was better is Fireworks. I would most like to have someone knowledgable with developing Flash look at the task, and not just an interface, but I guess anything is better than nothing. In any case we have a policy that we only do what we can do well. So to develop this application for kdewebdev we would need two things...

1) A developer with the time to code it
2) A Flash user who could help with specifications and testing.

Note that we don't have #1 and #2 requires some rare talent and passion as well. Both combined is exceptional.

If there was community support to develop Flash/SVG web tools on Linux I have developers who have written me and told me they would like to be sponsored. (Possibly other SVG tools may become applicable as a plugin too.) This would take no more than a few hundred dollars a month to provide a sponsored backbone developer. I'm just not going to spread things too thin with current resources.

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Re: flash
by gerd on Monday 18/Oct/2004, @02:51

Eric, if you could provide "support contracts" for Quanta I could possibly make my employee to sign such a contract, we have a software/IT budget. Bt donations are only worth if they are tax exempted.

And I am afraid for me as an European I can donate private money but I cannot donate business money.

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Re: flash
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 18/Oct/2004, @16:37

At the moment I'm incredibly busy with work. When I get a chance to breath I will be working on the new web site with our site team. I also have registered a domain for consulting on Quanta and will be registering a company and setting up and account. This will enable professional developers and corporate entities to access true consulting arrangements. Our mailing lists and email support will continue as it is, but the idea is two fold.

1) Provide a higher level of structured information on a subscription basis - this will enable advanced users to team up to "contribute" their services as well as some other interesting ideas like offer professional level content - this would be an inexpensive subscription that would go to supporting development and also content for the service.

2) Provide real consulting - This would enable companies to purchase contractural support agreements which would range from X amount of time, other arrangements all the way to flying out developers to set up and install custom packages on a networked system and train users.

I don't expect the more advanced consulting to do much for a while but I would like to offer it. When we are farther along with Team Projects, VPL, XSLT/VPL and some other enhancements I think we will start to see returns on this.

In the mean time feel free to contact me regarding this. My email is sequitur at kde dot org. I'm sure you would expect I am very serious about delivering value with any contracting. I am able to contract now and will have the business umbrella shortly.

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