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[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi TIm!

> Just curious whether or not you received my last message.  I'm sure
> you're very busy.

Please ask all question you have! I want to help you to get involved so I 
have to do less things later :)

> Any thoughts as to what you'd like me do initially?

As you know we're preparing version 1.0.
Could you help us to find and fix bugs until version 1.0.
Version 1.0 will be released at the end of this month.

After 1.0 new features like ThML support (probably) and other things will be 
added.
If you have ideas for new features or improvements please send them on this 
list!


> I'd like to understand some of the background of the team and
> the project.  Is there any informal or formal ties to Wycliffe
> by any of the team members?

In the end of 1998 I installed Linux on my Computer to throw away Windows :)
My older brother installed Linux, too. He ever wanted a Bible study program 
for Linux which fullfills his needs and reuqirements.
On Windows I was doing some pretty basic stuff in Pascal and Delphi. Because 
there was no Delphi on Linux I decided to learn C++. A Bible study tool was a 
good start and I started doing some prototypes.  At this time I was a really 
bad programmer :)
I started also to learn KDE and Qt at this, so I posted a message to the KDE 
development mailing list and wrote there I want to start working on a Linux 
Bible study tool. Two other programmers (Torsten Uhlmann and Thomas Hagedorn) 
responded to this eMail and they helped me very much to turninto a better 
programmer.

The time we started working on BibleTime was at the beginning of June 1999. 
Some months later (1999-08-27) we released version 0.1 which was pretty basic.
On the first january of 2000 we released version 0.2 which was much useable 
and helpful with your Bible study.

We were getting positive feedback and decided to continue to start working on 
a KDE2 port called version 0.3.
Torsten left the team around this time because he had not enough time. Now I 
got the sole project manager, developer, webpage designer, documentation 
author :)
0.3 was released 2000-07.
Around this time Martin send me an eMail and suggested some things. Now we 
are really good friends (I have to admitt he's my best friend).
At the end of last year God has shown me I was totally wrong with my live and 
I was convinced (with the help of Martin :) that he's the sole way to my 
salvation so I took him as my Lord and saviour. I have to learn much things 
but I'm on the best way.

The time after 0.3 was filled by the development for version 1.0 which will 
be released this month.

We do have to connections to Wycliffe, also we know some of them.

The resume is rather long, but I hope it's interesting for you and you know 
now what the background of BibleTime is.



God bless you!
Joachim