mankonit

Up, still looking for a serious person interested in making a partnership for German version translation and distribution !

Hello, As a shooting enthusiast and an independent software developer, I've been working for a couple of months on a ballistic simulator software. This tool is named qBal, and is presented in details on the web page : http://mankonit.free.fr/qbal/index.html I initially developed this software for the long range shooters community of my home country : France. Several other good softwares of that kind can be found on the net, but none of them are available in french, and many french shooters do not speak english, so they had no alternative. So, qBal software was developed using a framework that easily allows translation. The software is currently available in three languages : English, French and Italian. It is quite widely diffused in the french community (500+ registered users), and a little in the US too (english speaking users). All feedbacks I have from users are very good, and I give a great attention in taking in account remarks and suggestions, by releasing new versions with suggested functionalities. I made the choice of making this software non totally free. I actually require a “symbolic” price of 5€ for it. Why ? The goal is not to make big money, even if this little additional income is appreciable. No, the reason is mainly to act as a “filter” for users, to target serious people that are really interested in long range shooting, and to avoid peoples that would only try the software “for fun”, without any knowledge or real interest in that thing, and that would require from me a great effort with questions and non interesting contributions. Today, In order to increase qBal audience and to offer an alternative to other non-english speaking shooters from European countries, I have the project to translate qBal in different languages, including German, of course. However, my main problem is precisely that I do not speak that language (despite I learned it at school a long time ago …!) ... so I’m looking for people that would be ready to partner with me in that work. If you would like to try the software to get an idea of its capabilities, please contact me : mankonit@gmail.com, or visit the web page http://mankonit.free.fr/qbal/index.html. Aside the translation itself, the person I would like to meet shold be ready to present the software to the shooter community in the corresponding language, on the appropriate forums and websites (this one seems to be a good start point !), in order to develop the audience. Of course this work (that I think would take quite an important time !) would be retributed with a fraction of the € generated by the sell in the corresponding community. That may be not a lot, but that alwas nice to get a little money from a project where you spend time and effort ! Regards MK mankonit@gmail.com http://mankonit.free.fr/qbal/index.html