<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>I would like to commend the coders for producing such a fine product.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">I have found the entire program to be quite intuitive, with a very short learning curve. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span
style="background-color: transparent;">When I did encounter a few</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> idiosyncrasies, I was able to turn to the wiki pages and the help files in order to understand how they were implemented. </span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">You should take great pride in the robust features found today in Scribus 1.5.0svn. </div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Thanks everyone, and keep up the fantastic work! </span></div><div
style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Scribus User Mailing List <scribus@lists.scribus.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 10, 2013 2:24 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [scribus] New Reader Impressions<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:<br><br>>>
That's of course, in case Scribus team thinks it's worth talking<br>>> about. The last time I tried discussing it, there was zero<br>>> understanding.<br>><br>> So they aren't graphic designers?<br>><br>> One model for open source software is to use to build a business on top of it either helping<br>> people fix their designs, doing templates they can then alter Or developing plug-ins that<br>> have Pro versions that offer subscription based services. That supports the at least some<br>> of the community of coders.<br><br>Well, here's the thing that's typically missed: you've got to have<br>human resources to claim the money. Scribus team did some paid work<br>for OIF in the past, but I'm not sure if any of that was done<br>full-time. Most likely, not.<br><br>Teams like GIMP's, Inkscape's and Scribus's are typicaly comprised of<br>developers who already have a day job and are fine with it. Of course,<br>it's entirely
possible to find _new_ developers for paid work --<br>Blender and Krita are among such examples. But these new developers<br>don't come out of blue. Typically they are part of the comminuty for<br>at least a few years.<br><br>Frankly, I've no idea if anyone in the Scribus community is a<br>developer willing to work on it full time.<br><br>I understand how this might not look sustainable enough to you, but<br>that's the way things are.<br><br>Alexandre Prokoudine<br><a href="http://libregraphicsworld.org/" target="_blank">http://libregraphicsworld.org</a><br><br>___<br>Scribus Mailing List: <a ymailto="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net" href="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net">scribus@lists.scribus.net</a><br>Edit your options or unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus" target="_blank">http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus</a><br>See also:<br><a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/"
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