Re: A message from Quanta project lead

On Sunday 01 January 2012 21:54:07 Eric Laffoon wrote:
> Hello all and happy new year. I have not been active here for some time.
> The decline of this project has been a sore spot with me for some time. I
> was happy for Andras to be able to leave and take care of his family
> better. As for me I now program in C++ and have even done parser
> programming on Kommander. I should have both time and money to pursue this
> project. Lately my business has suffered from 3 years of bad weather, but
> prior to that I had health problems and had such high blood pressure I was
> at severe risk of a fatal episode of one type or another. After extensive
> visits to my naturopath for over a year it was determined it was the result
> of relationship stress in my marriage. After trying to fix it I realized I
> had to change. I was never able to relax and do what I wanted.
>
> I am now divorced and working to repair my life. I am used to setting goals
> and achieving them, but I have been frustrated by a partner who was not.
> When I separated this year I asked myself what I wanted in life. I met a
> woman who thinks like I do. She is from Hong Kong. She has been here since
> November. Once we have my business on track I will once again have time for
> this project. For the first time in years really exciting things are
> happening on the web. I want to be able to write HTML5 sites, mobile
> applications and more in Quanta. I have a good idea what needs to be done.
>
> For the first time in decades I am truly happy! I have never felt so
> positive about the future. I am looking forward to the life I have dreamed
> of with new hope and this project continues to be important to me.

hello Eric,
fine to see you're back again, and first of all: happy new year!
in fact, I had several time planned to ask how it goes with you, but then 
always ceased as I was not sure wether this could hurt you...
so I see you really had some hard times (as supposed) but that seem to go away 
now.
and I can really feel with that, as I also had some bad years, from 2005, due 
to injurys/crashes/surgeries ... but now getting better again.
as for Q+, I appreciate any progress in the future, would be a pity for this 
project not to survive.
although it can be stated the old (now a bit outdated) Q+ for kde3 still lives 
on as part of the trinity project: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
which I'm happily using now, on debian squeeze.
(I do not want to begin KDE4 bashing here, but the current akonadi/nepomuk... 
mess has really pissed me off, ATM).
I'm planning to have a closer look at the state of kdevelop/php/Q+ work from 
milian wolff and niko sams once kde4 is in a more reliable state (or just try 
to build kdevelop/Q+ inside http://razor-qt.org/, which is a lightweight qt4 
based DE),
as I believe there is potential in that what has already been achieved.
see niko's post on this subject lately.

Werner