Krita's team have reached their target to raise Krita to the next level since they've raised €4,000.00 so far, which is €1,000.00 over their goal!. This donation will be used to hire Lukáš Tvrdý for three months to work for  accelerating Krita's performance, stability and usability. 

Lukáš ,two time Google Summer of Code alumnus and creator of the wickedly cool brush engines, will work full time on Krita in the period of February 2010 to end of April.

Krita 2.1 has already been released, so Krita's team is planning for Krita 2.2 which should be become  the first Krita 2 release to be completely ready for everyday usage by graphics artists everywhere. It is expected to be fast, stable, and have great usability.

" The most exciting and amazing things last week was of course the response to our fund raiser: more than 150 people replied and donated money! Thank you all!"  Boudewijn Rempt has stated on krita.org.

"The response is so great! We’ve been running less than a week, and we are already over target. But, if you like Krita and would have liked to donate, there’s no reason for you not to: every Euro we go over the target will be spent on having Lukáš work for a longer period on Krita " he added on pledgine page. 

Krita is the bitmap graphics editing software which is shipped with KDE and based on KOffice suite. It is designed to be a painting application and a photo editor at the same time, Krita is a free software and distributed under GNU General Public License. 

Currently, Krita 2.2 is planned to be released by the end of May 2010 while Krita 2.3 in September 2010, ready to use to create advanced art.

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