How much IXCoin are you willing to donate for this task?
I've gotten no word back from the dev yet but so far I've gotten 15,000 ixCoin's together. Just the wallet encryption would be enough as that is urgent.
I've got the 0.8.5 client working and performing some tests. Doing it on a Mac OS X system.
Anyway, let me know how much coins you've collected from the community.
If you want to build the QT version of the client, I've got a buddy of mine that does that work for both Windows and Ubuntu. There's also a guy out there who does the Mac OS X versions. The QT stuff usually is a pain to work with. Same too with the Windows code base, just horrid.
Nevertheless, the core stuff appearts to work fine, I received a couple of coins from some guys a couple days ago. Right now it is just cleanup work.