That makes a nice change to get an email like that - makes all the work worthwhile :-)
2009/11/25 Jonathan Thomas <[email protected]> > FYI: Here is a really nice email I received yesterday. I wanted to share > it with everyone. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Luciano Ernesto Cruzado <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:58 PM > Subject: Thank YOU MAN > To: [email protected] > > First of all, excuse my english. > > I've recently tried OPENSHOT, a user mentioned it in a blendernation > comment yesterday. > > As an experienced multimedia user living in Argentina, i often found myself > frustrated by the video editing software available on ubuntu and linux in > general. In my country, the possibility of buying a commercial software > licence is a LUXURY, that sadly very few can afford. Off course piracy is an > easy way out, but a frustrating one too, more if you want to make a career > based in multimedia. > > That's why i use ubuntu, and i fell in love with it. My first life savior > software was the powerfull blender, opening the 3d world to me and > many other artists, without any creative restriction. But the lack of an > equal powerfull and really all-task-friendly video editor was allways > dissapointing to me. (and not only me, off course) > > My first attempts on video editing, many years ago, when i was in my > learning process, where done in the great Adobe premiere (7 i think) > running over a pirate copy of win98se, with an old AT celeron 400... but i > managed to do several lo res editing anyway. And off course i teached myself > several tricks to save cpu processing memory. > > So, you got the picture. I tell you all this because i want you to figure > HOW SIGNIFICANT is for me your OPENSHOT project. > > I can spend several hours developing my skills to master a software, but i > cannot spend several hours just triying to figure out how to > make a simple basic action in a software that was supossed to easily cover > that. Or triyng to find a workaround to bypass a limitation of that > software. And, again, i'm not the only one. > > You, Jonathan, are a bless. I used the latest work in progress version of > open shot for only 5 minutes before writting you this letter. > I know how to recognize a GREAT software when i try it. And OPENSHOT IS > WITHOUT A DOUBT, the FIRST user friendly, powerfull, and made > for the artist video editor in Open source and free software All around. > > So i want to THANK YOU, for sharing your years of expertice of programming > and designing great software. Thank you for your great criteria, skills and > most of all YOUR GENEROSITY. > > What you have in your hands right now, this project, is A GIFT to people > like me. And i want to encourage you to keep going with such amazing work. > You are opening the gates to MANY, by using this software, or by following > your example. > > You are making and giving this for free, and by doing it, you are making > this caotic and selfish world a little better. > > And i have no DOUBT that in the long road, you will be very rewarded. > > I'LL SPREAD THE WORD. > > > > BEST OF LUCK. > > > Luciano Cruzado. > > > > ------------------------------ > ¡Revisá de un vistazo si tenés correos nuevos! Ingresá a tu Hotmail desde > tu Messenger. ¡Probalo > ahora!<http://www.microsoft.com/latam/windows/windowslive/default.aspx> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenshot.developers> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenshot.developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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