I wouldnt call it dead but development is not ongoing and I dont know when it will be. We have some new features waiting to be merged into trunk that have already been developed for the 0.2 release. I really hope we'll find some time this winter to do work on it.
Qanban can be run locally but is really meant to be run on a web server. In a multi-user situation Id suggest running it on a web server, tomcat for example.
Good luck with Kanban and Qanban!
Regards,
Leonard
Technical Lead Qanban