Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 03:36:48 -0400 From: Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: netlabs dot org: Thanks for the support in January! And now about Qt... ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: ktkDESPAM at DESPAMnetlabs dot org Dear OS/2 community, Earlier this year I sent out an email to a list of former http://netlabs dot org supporters to make sure I could buy a new server for netlabs. The hardware started failing after 5 years. Due to the very generous donations we collected around 3'000 US$ in sponsoring for the new hardware, thanks a lot to everyone! The new server is running for several months now and replaced the faulty hardware. This means the servers should be save for approximately the next 5 years. Now I would like to move the focus to the Qt 5 Project for OS/2. The port of Qt is a project we started many, many years back. With Qt 4 we were able to port important software to the OS/2 platform. However, Qt 5 is available for 5 years already and new software is running on this version of Qt exclusively. Making Qt 5 available on OS/2 will allow porting of new software. As you might now, version 60 of Firefox can no longer be compiled on OS/2 due to new language requirements (Rust language support). Qt 5 provides QtWebEngine, an engine used by browsers like Falkon (https://www.falkon dot org/). It might even be possible to port Google Chromium later. In other words, one of them could become a maintained alternative web browser on the OS/2 platform. The port of Qt 5 is done by bww bitwise works, which was able to finance the development by the community for many months already. However, Qt 5 is not a small thing to port, so they need our continuous financial support to finish it. If you would like to contribute you can do that with one-time contributions or even better, by subscribing to an ongoing contribution on Patreon: https://www.patreon dot com/bwwbitwiseworks Or directly on the bww shop: https://www.bitwiseworks dot com/shop/ You can also make a one-time contribution via Paypal (payed to VOICE foundation), please scroll to the "Paypal" dropdown, it lists 20 50 and 100 Euro. http://articles.os2voice dot org/category/voice/19-update-6-from-os-2-voice-bww-qt-browser-funding-campaign.html Previous updates on the QT funding campaign can be found here: http://articles.os2voice dot org. Thanks again for your contributions! We can only continue our journey as long as we are able to finance up to date software on our beloved platform! regards Adrian Gschwend http://netlabs dot org -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it. To submit news to this list please use the submission form at http://www.os2voice dot org/SubmitNews.html or send an email to "submit at os2voice dot org" To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice dot org unsubscribe news end ]