Like I said...my mistake.  I was possibly not paying enough attention to
every minute of a two hour show.



On 08/07/2014 18:13, Charles Thayer wrote:
>
> The comment that seems to have started all of this was an off-hand remark to 
> the effect that Orca is "something that Jonathan Nadeau has been working on." 
>  I think the comment referred to the fundraising effort that Jonathan 
> conducted at the beginning of the year to pay for some developer hours needed 
> for bug fixes and features.
>
> Ahuka made this comment in the middle of a segment about the recent comments 
> about Jon Kulp's episode on Blather.  Since I believe that he contributed to 
> the IndieGoGo campaign, I'm pretty sure that Ahuka did not mean to imply that 
> Jonathan was the project lead or the inventor of Orca.  I think he was 
> indicating that we have a community member with an active interest in that 
> project, not that Jonathan has taken the reins for Orca.  I think Jonathan 
> has enough to do to get Sonar rebased on Manjaro, and in moving the new Sonar 
> GNU/Linux beta version into production.
>
>
> I do see how someone might possibly make the inference that Ahuka was making 
> that kind of suggestion.  I didn't hear it on the first try myself, because I 
> was familiar with the project, with Ahuka's history of contributions and 
> statements, and (to a small degree) with Jonathan's efforts in promoting 
> accessible computing.
>
> It didn't hurt that we set the record straight here, so thanks to everyone 
> who has commented.
>
> Don't worry, Jonathan.  I won't be sending Orca bug reports to you.  There's 
> a perfectly good bug tracker on the project site for all of us to contribute 
> our bug reports and patches to help push the development work forward.  :-)
>
> Charles in NJ
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Jonathan Nadeau <[email protected]>
> To: Mike Ray <[email protected]>; [email protected] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 9:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Hpr] Orca
>  
>
> sorry I haven't listened to that episode yet.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 07/08/2014 09:06 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
>> Jonathan, I was just responding to a comment in the community news
>> podcast for June.  I think I may have misunderstood the remark but it
>> sounded like somebody was mistaken in thinking you wrote Orca.  That's all.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08/07/2014 13:55, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
>>> Who in the world said i wrote Orca? I don't even know why this was
>>> nessecery to write. I didn't see any post recently that said I wrote
>>> Orca. What is the point of this?
>>>
>>>
>>>   On 07/08/2014 01:26 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
>>>> Just a quick heads-up...Jonathan Nadau didn't write Orca.
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28assistive_technology%29
>>>>
>>>> Currently the project is led by Joan-Marie Diggs.
>>>>
>>>> Not another person who is in the habit of using the adjectives 'alpha'
>>>> and 'stable' in the same sentence.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
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