I have been involved in the hugin project for over two years now, and am currently maintaining the Mac OS X port and Japanese localisation. The tool is very powerful, and I have enjoyed making panorama photos with it very much.

Some first time users complained hugin as it is today is not intuitive enough for simply stitching their photos, and indeed the concept of some of available features are so complicated that I have never known until last week for over two years.

Since PanoTools is such a powerful toolkit, and the community is coming up with yet more powerful new features every month, I would like to move the entire community further forward by constructing highly extensible new GUI application, that easily accommodate new features and yet simple and intuitive for users from different levels of backgrounds so it also opens the door for more potential users.