-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-12-23 23:36, Jason Dodd wrote: > what good are we?
Gosh, that sounds like the opening line to every movie on this week, but thank you for the soft ball :) Some background. This campaign is about the Orca Screen Reader a free, open source, application that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech and/or braille. Written in python, it provides a way for blind, low vision, dyslexic, etc. people to do all the things we all take for granted. Filing taxes, checking when the next bus is leaving, or simply earning a living. The problem is that while this program is so essential to so many peoples lives it has only O.N.E. (1) developer. That can be fixed by, either Cash, Code and/or Cooperation. Cash They're looking to raise $100,000 to hire two full time contractors to fix all the outstanding bugs in Orca. Will HPR be able to raise this by ourselves ? Probably not, but that number was suggested by Jason Calicanis and if he thinks he can then great. We can however get the word out on G+, Twitter, Facebook etc. Code We've had 17 episodes with Python in their title and many more where it was discussed. So it's possible that we could convince some of those people to have a look at orca. Cooperation The most important thing we can do is raise the profile of Accessible Computing. We can contribute documentation, put people in touch with advisor's, tell our friends that Orca and exists, record new voices for the speech engine, and generally making Orca not just better but, ten times better. So to summarise we do what we do. We talk about stuff, write tutorials, contribute code, record shows, hold talks at conferences, put ideas in peoples heads, raise awareness, chip away, chip away, chip away. After 7 years, 6 months, 22 days that is what *we* do best. Ken. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSuVxkAAoJECO2jUN3MRFpHBcQAKiIj3wqbCkKDwkGZDzlNB3H fO9C/dUyMeWW/Zg/ncnSAU6uigEqFeWhoVaSIMefG268N1XjbevUDIWt4T1Ra7nN R7NyNvgbKEyKrnxf8c36CuYUjwFa9G96xBx0GrGrTomT/+uWsdKFkAPDtrOMD/VJ +ilL9g+BebtBIwuigOuvvXleHZZA3ptJFyb2EJwlW/E7R8RPuI98Oad/fKcoLcR4 ca6zkYUKYLgyrAkRTP7F7zuwaGf3JJnozPbWLp9h903f0/NQ+uuBA4eTPbHMex3+ 6FBR0pQY1P3vg2amD/9qWgW1Z2YLGocmUUWoFyijglEsF88XmSL9IGfBuwtNSFPF tHGSa/Qp5ygjRd/jBC/lHckbq+tmRLWZzyfBFPuYuVjqJnjzpDZHv1ntM8aGglKx Un6DOHgT9z7zoY07HWDPjayTdseaL2dvrr4/f3jLBqA6QrfhLr09y2Uk1TaKMm+N 8NVpm4IzMDFSe2jNB97TcmWeObgnx2VP7l+4hhzoRprcY4J8Wq38KBZJGbJPnR8M ERbFSK1A70kSrywTEA9D2hjNgfWqDtV7PtQ6SzA8clfe92lqe18VDS+me/TgttDV nS5DZJLnz18Oywx5DYMy8qWfFYMOESTji3oNTWxpKa3TFhdUcdk2aGFQqXC2KJ4W ceK7ew3+DCDzCEW80u8C =06qX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
