Project leader candidacy

I would like to declare my candidacy for zinf project lead developer.

I have used zinf/freeamp daily for about three years and have been
developing for zinf for the past year.  

My primary user goals for zinf are to provide a stable and useful
player for personal music collections.

 My design goals are to provide a versatile music player with advanced
metadata(tag) handling capabilities based around an architecture of
minimal sharing.

 To that end, I have recently revamped vorbis tag support and am
currently integrating an advanced layered database model into the
current zinf code base.  My other contribution are: released two
versions of zinf over the last 4 months (versions 2.2.2 and 2.2.3),
added international support to many areas (still ongoing), Drag and
drop between playlists, many small bug fixes for linux.

 I am committed to keeping zinf a multi-platform player and in the
future would like see the main player and UI be completely
multi-platform using a shared codebase.  I would push zinf to cooperate
with the major platforms in use (linux, solaris, win32, macintosh).

 Currently zinf has a strong following and widely used in both the
linux and win32 worlds.  I would encourage developers to work on
improving the core player and continue to work on improving its playing
and music handling capabilities.

 I believe that by being project lead I can do more to help zinf.
Providing direction, coding support and reachable goals are important
in any project.  Fostering cooperation and technical consensus as well
are especially important in an opensource project. Zinf needs
leadership more than ever.

Thanks

-- 
Kristian G. Kvilekval
email:[email protected] office:(805)893-4276 http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kris



-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Does your code think in ink? 
You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. 
What are you waiting for?
http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en