Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Mariano MARINI
Il Wednesday 21 May 2008 04:54:59 Jason Lucas ha scritto: > On a personal note, I've found that on the verge of my 40th birthday, my > wide ranging and extensive experience in IT is no longer valued, (try > getting a job interview for an IT job at my age & you'll understand). > So I'm now forced to

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Mauricio Giovagnini
Jason Lucas escribió: > Well, thanks for the input Guys. It's the busiest time the list has seen > for a while! One thing that is most apparent is that we would all like > to keen the project alive, but none of us have the time to do it. I'm > surprised that there has been very little activity fro

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Lawrence Shafer
As I said a long time ago on here, last time this was abandoned, I would be more than willing to host the site on my servers for free for as long as I'm in business. I run orbwireless.net so it don't see why it shouldn't last 10 years or more. It could also have a subdomain of my shaferlabs.org

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Julian Bäume
Hi there, On Wednesday 21 May 2008 Lawrence Shafer wrote: > As I said a long time ago on here, last time this was abandoned, I would > be more than willing to host the site on my servers for free for as long as > I'm in business. I run orbwireless.net so it don't see why it shouldn't > last 10 ye

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Julian Bäume
Hi, it's me again, On Wednesday 21 May 2008 Jason Lucas wrote: > Well, thanks for the input Guys. It's the busiest time the list has seen > for a while! One thing that is most apparent is that we would all like > to keen the project alive, but none of us have the time to do it. I'm > surprised tha

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Gopala Krishna
May be we(or even me) should have tried to apply for gsoc-08 for ktechlab porting to kde4. I hope the project will be alive amongst you great contributors. I don't know when i'll get time to contribute :-( I wish this project a great success! Its just the hard time for ktechlab, and there will be

[Ktechlab-devel] Project administration

2008-05-21 Thread Julian Bäume
Hi, as Jason mentioned, he will leave the position as the project maintainer soon. So we are looking for a successor. I would have offered to do the job, but somehow I'm afraid, that I've got too little experience in maintaining a project. I think working on a project in the spare time has to b

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Julian Bäume
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 Gopala Krishna wrote: > May be we(or even me) should have tried to apply for gsoc-08 for > ktechlab porting to kde4. I hope the project will be alive amongst you > great contributors. I don't know when i'll get time to contribute :-( Yeah, I thought about that, but during t

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Mauricio Giovagnini
Julian Bäume escribió: > > Concerning the top-level domain: I don't think, we really need this to keep > the project up and running. It would be enough to have a sub-domain somewhere > and point there from sourceforge. In fact, I have got ktechlab.sf.net in my > bookmarks to go to the wiki and

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Mauricio Giovagnini
Julian Bäume escribió: > Hi, > it's me again, > > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 Jason Lucas wrote: >> Well, thanks for the input Guys. It's the busiest time the list has seen >> for a while! One thing that is most apparent is that we would all like >> to keen the project alive, but none of us have the

[Ktechlab-devel] KTechlab should not die

2008-05-21 Thread Jose Luis Galvez Lopez
I am a Spanish teacher of electronic (I ask forgiveness for my English) and I think that KTechlab is a good program and very educational. I think use it with my students the next academic year. Therefore I believe that Ktechlab should not die. Unfortunately I am not a programmer, but I want he

Re: [Ktechlab-devel] KTechLab Project Shutdown

2008-05-21 Thread Jonathan-David SCHRODER
Hi I could write to my computer science teacher & maybe electronic teacher. i'm a student in 3rd year after high school student in a french IT enginneering school. here in my engineering school (in France), students in first, 2nd year (and 4th year) after A-level/baccalauréat/Abitur/high school dip

[Ktechlab-devel] Translation

2008-05-21 Thread Jason Lucas
OK, many of you have asked how to translate KTechLab into your native language. The basic instructions are on the Wiki: http://www.ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Index:Translation If you need additional help, then 'Google is your friend'. Please update the wiki with your own tips and hints on t

[Ktechlab-devel] A way forward.

2008-05-21 Thread Jason Lucas
Whilst I'm struggling to justify spending anymore time on this project, I'm impressed by how many of you guys want the project to continue. I'd be even more impressed if this sort of support happened without teh threat of the project shut-down. Perhaps I could offer an example of a really successfu