Folks,
As per the email below, I have put up my hand to look after the website and the
windows binaries that Steffen was maintaining. I'm not a programmer by trade
so my ability to get new binaries might be limited. I see myself more as a
caretaker rather than an active participant until someone who was a developer
could take over. I'm not certain how I'm going to get new binaries for
Windows. I'll have to think about that one.
I would like to praise Steffen through his wife, Yasemin. Whilst I only knew
Steffen through email, he came across as a very friendly and articulate person
that put in a considerable amount of time with Dia. Steffen always had time
for me when I emailed him. His efforts will be missed. Yasemin, please accept
my condolences.
Timothy
From: timothy141...@hotmail.com
To: fnat...@gmx.net
CC: m...@yaseminyilmaz.net; bar...@abwesend.de
Subject: RE: dia-installer.de / Steffen Macke
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:44:13 +1100
> From: fnat...@gmx.net
> To: timothy141...@hotmail.com
> CC: m...@yaseminyilmaz.net; bar...@abwesend.de
> Subject: Re: dia-installer.de / Steffen Macke
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 19:36:16 +0100
>
> timothy b <timothy141...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > Felix,
>
> hello Timothy,
>
> > I would be happy to take over in the short term, if you don't get any
> > other offers.
>
> great, thanks!
>
> > I do
> > need to set the expectation that I'm not a programmer and would be taking
> > on the role as
> > a custodian of Windows for Dia.
>
> Does that mean you want to administrate dia-installer.de and/or maintain
> windows binaries?
>
Yes, the website and Windows binaries is fine with me. I am clueless when it
comes to MAC's.
> Do you need help with the windows installer ("binaries")?
>
I may need some assistance. I had VC++6.0 ages ago but have probably lost the
disks. I will need to put in some time to understand what it is I'm going to
need help with first.
> @Yasemin: Do you have access to Steffen's source code of the windows
> installer?
>
I only have access to what is publicly available, nothing more.
> Can we continue this discussion on (CC:) dia-list@gnome.org?
>
> Thanks again and and Best Regards,
> Felix
>
Yes.
> > Timothy Bogie
> > Canberra, Australia
> >
> >> From: fnat...@gmx.net
> >> To: dia-list@gnome.org
> >> Subject: dia-installer.de / Steffen Macke
> >> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 20:00:38 +0100
> >> CC: m...@yaseminyilmaz.net; bar...@abwesend.de
> >>
> >> hello dia developers and users,
> >>
> >> as you may have read in a previous post, Steffen has died last year.
> >> Steffen maintained dia-installer.de which consists mostly of:
> >> - a windows installer (including dia portable)
> >> - a mac installer
> >> - Debian and openSUSE packages
> >> - dia shapes repository + installer
> >> - documentation
> >> - ...
> >>
> >> His wife, Yasemin, told me that she has administration rights for
> >> dia-installer.de (and most probably also access to his source codes).
> >>
> >> It would be great (and probably satifying for Yasemin and Steffen's
> >> familiy/friends) if someone could pick up things like the windows/mac
> >> installers (maybe by Windows/Mac experts who also use dia) or other
> >> parts like the shape collections or keep dia-installer.de running or ...
> >>
> >> Unfortunately I cannot do this, as I work on Freeplane, Debian and
> >> GTypist already and am running almost exlusively Linux.
> >>
> >> The good news is that some of his probjects are available as
> >> official Debian packages:
> >> https://packages.debian.org/sid/dia-shapes
> >> https://packages.debian.org/sid/dia2code (not from Steffen himself I
> >> think)
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> --
> >> Felix Natter
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> >> Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Felix Natter
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