Yep, I'll happily confirm what Travis mentions regarding volunteering
his expertise. He's constructive and generous that way. In our case,
we're still deciding how to split resources between the current
katieplayer version and the forthcoming Cocoa version - so we're not
sure yet what and how we might be able to parcel out various pieces
(though we do tend to work in a modular fashion...so that helps).
Further, there are sometimes practical issues/obstacles/
incompatibilities related to chosen development environments and
languages, bringing a new person into an effort, etc. All that being
said, I've not forgotten Travis' offer and It's very likely we'll
find areas where we really need help and any practical obstacles are
trumped by the experience and expertise Travis obviously brings.
We'll get there.
I suspect you'll find similar situations with other developers. In
fact, I'd guess some efforts would be a good deal more strict in
their outlook (with the strictest being [I'd argue necessarily] the
mother ship i.e. Apple). There are issues of liability, protection of
intellectual property, etc. We might not like to think about those
things but they matter (and probably should matter) to most
businesses (and that includes some of the non-profit businesses which
serve the blind community). Finally, there's a whole other discussion
to be had regarding open source vs. closed/proprietary efforts, etc.,
etc...but that would be outside the scope of this discussion and
probably way off-topic for this list.
Joe
On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
I also believe in doing it right the first time. Only in this
case, I ask you one question.
If you were deaf blind, and had to use braille to access your
computer, would you want vo type feedback, or would you want
information that was in addition to what vo gives out, and thus
nearly completely useless to you as a deaf blind user? I'm not deaf
blind, but I know what my answer would be.
And as for working separately instead of together, talk to apple,
katie player, folks, and various share/freeware authors about how
I've offered to work with them or indeed tried to go to work for
them to make the programs accessible/more usable. Put that
together with the fact that I'm still working alone, then you tell
me why it doesn't happen.
On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
I don't believe in doing quick put-ups. I believe in doing it
right in the first place. The fact that people on this list
continually ignore suggestions to work with the brltty team and
want to work on their own is puzzling and disappointing to me.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
