Hello all and a warm welcome to new Helix community members!

Thank you for your interest in the Helix Player project.  My name is 
Vikram Dendi, and I am the program manager for the Helix Player. The 
Helix Player project was officially launched 
<http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/helixplayer.html> 
on August 6, 2003 at LinuxWorld San Francisco and has been on fasttrack 
to Milestone 1 ever since.

The goal of the Helix player project 
<https://player.helixcommunity.org/> is to create the best, most 
powerful media player (and browser plug-in) for Linux and Solaris 
harnessing the power of community and open source development. The Helix 
Player is being built on top of the cross-platform open source media 
engine, called the Helix DNA Client 
<https://helix-client.helixcommunity.org/>.  Initial versions of the 
player will be built for Linux and Solaris following freedesktop.org 
standards using the GTK+ toolkit.  Further, the modular architecture of 
the Helix Player will ensure the code is easily portable to any 
operating system or embedded device.  It will support all of the types 
of media currently offered by the Helix DNA Client. True to the spirit 
of open source, our open community approach will ensure that those who 
will use the Helix Player have an opportunity to help shape it.

The project timeline, which evolves as members of the Helix community 
contribute to the Helix Player project, along with product 
specifications, is available on the Helix Player project home page 
<https://player.helixcommunity.org/>, plus various documents that we 
hope will give you a good overview of what we have done so far.  The 
first of four project milestones 
<https://player.helixcommunity.org/2003/draft/milestones.html>, which 
delivers the first usable release, is scheduled for early next quarter. 
Please feel free to access the current codebase via CVS. Please email me 
<mailto:vdendi at helixcommunity.org> if you have any questions.  I also 
encourage you to participate on our other mailing lists 
<https://www.helixcommunity.org/2002/intro/mailinglists/>. If you are 
interested in the development of Helix Player and would like to be part 
of feature discussions please make sure to add yourself to the 
dev at player.helixcommunity.org mailing lists. The forums on the website 
are a great place to ask and find answers for questions.

Together let's make this long awaited vision a reality.

-V

Vikram Dendi
Program Manager for Helix Player
https://player.helixcommunity.org

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