Fading Memories

Thanks to our latest donor, Silvio Grosso, we're at four thousand euros now on Pledgie: Help raise Krita to the next level -- which together with the donations people have made into my bank account directly, means that, even after Paypal has taken its cut, Lukas will be able to work on Krita for another month in the summer!

Here's a screenshot of Krita showing off a feature Silvio asked for that we never really highlighted before: using flake shapes, it's easy to add vector arrows to screenshots, to point out important items. In this case, the default color setting for a new image, which is what I'm working on currently:

Deep-felt thanks go to the more than 160 people who cared enough about Krita that they made this donation drive such an unbelievable success! It is a big vote of confidence and I am determined that we'll prove ourselves worth of it.

The Krita fund raising campaign went live on Monday. Tuesday night, Jos Poortvliet published his interview with me and Lukáš. Today it's Thursday night, and not only have we very nearly reached the campaign goals, we're now at €2,343.00, but I've also bursted out of my Paypal account! So from now on, new donations will go to Cyrille Berger's paypal account, until I've unblocked mine. Our ace webmaster, Kubuntiac has been telling me he warned me this had happened to others, but I simply hadn't expected so many people -- 89 already -- to care enough about Krita that they wanted to help us!

A great, big thank you! to you all!

I can only say that I'm totally floored and apart from the paypal issue, and, deo volente, it's now certain that Lukáš will be able to start doing what you all have decided is so very much worth doing: Make Krita fast!

As I promised, we're having weekly updates on what has happened in Krita on Krita.org, and last week's update has just been published: Week 48: Relative Quiet.

But don't let the title scare you from clicking on the link! It was still a way cool week for us! Quiet for Krita still means lots of development.