Yes. I will listen to the program and I am also interested to take part in the workshop. Arup, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arun Mehta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: [AI] join us for Global Learn Day, Oct 8, 11 am IST
> Hi, I have been a lurker on this list for some time now. Some of you > may know me from the time I spent as a volunteer at the NAB Delhi, > teaching Visual Basic programming. > > Global Learn Day is an annual 24-hour event on the Internet that seeks > to promote distance learning around the world. October 8, 2006, is > the tenth such occasion. The South Asia portion has a very special > keynote speaker, Dr. TV Raman, who is one of the most brilliant > programmers around the world. He is blind, and the creator of > emacspeak, the revolutionary tool that leverages the versatility of > emacs, to make available editing, browsing, mail, calendar and myriad > other facilities to the blind. He best exemplifies my belief, that the > best writers of software for the disabled are persons with the same > disability. Raman is also a great thinker. Example: > > "I have a somewhat contrarian answer when people allege > "emacs/emacspeak has a steep learning curve". The usual expectation is > for one to hotly deny that somewhat bogus assertion. My usual response > though is "I like steep learning curves -- it gets you ahead faster". > " > > His talk begins at 5:30 AM GMT on October 8. This will be followed by > a presentation by Dr. Dipendra Manocha of the National Association for > the Blind. Together with him, and a little help from me, two blind > programming students, Avneesh and Suman, have successfully written > software for a soon to be released cutting-edge Daisy authoring tool, > called Obi. We will also talk about initiatives across the Indo-Pak > border to promote the use of ICTs by the blind. > > Please join us for a discussion of how distance learning and other > Internet-related technologies can be of assistance to persons with > disabilities, and how to take these ideas further. Instructions on how > to participate are at http://ben300.com/GLDTEN/?p=52 . Other details > at http://www.bfranklin.edu/ > > Please feel free to forward this to others who may be interested. > > May I take this opportunity to ask how members of this list feel about > Linux and emacspeak? > > Would there be interest in a workshop at the NAB, where people who are > blind can learn to use Linux and emacspeak? > > Arun Mehta > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.12/462 - Release Date: 10/3/2006 > Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
