Re: [orca-list] possibly OT: Oracle takeover

[SatyaNarayana Murthy Tanikella <satyanarayanamurthy tanikella gmail com>]

Dear List,
As I promised I am going to start my contribution in Orca development
and testing.
 to take it forward I started learning python also.
Now my question is:
Which distribution can I use?
Ubuntu is good or Fedora?
Thanking you in advance.
Satyam.

On 2/22/10, Willie Walker <walker willie gmail com> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I'm terribly behind in my e-mail and I'm traveling this week.  I'll
> try to catch up if I get spare moments.  Getting talented members of
> the community to contribute to Orca would be great, and I'm excited at
> the prospect of more people contributing to Orca.
>
> Will
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:57 PM, hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 February 2010 08:56 PM, SatyaNarayana Murthy Tanikella wrote:
> > > Dear Will and Orca list,
> > > I am very sorry to respond very late.
> > > I was away for some reasons.
> > > The new organisation also can continue to fund Orca and gnome
> > > accessibility by using the expurtise of Willie Walker.
> >
> > Which organisation?
> > I would also like to spare my time for this work, as I have been promoting
> > use of orca on a very large scale and now a days spending a few houres
> > reading the scripts.
> >
> >
> > > I request not
> > > to get angry with my remark. All large corporations are planning to
> > > kill open source and its accessibility projects. this will result in
> > > most of non technical visually impired community depending on closed
> > > source accessibility technologies and assistive aids. I don't want to
> > > see Orca also getting closed like LSR and Gnopernicus.
> >
> > Well, we need not worry about this at all.  Orca is matured enough that
> > many
> > community members of FOSS who can either give part-time or almost
> > full-time
> > can take this work under the able guidance of wil and the likes.
> > I know of many open source projects which are litterally thriving just on
> > community based development.
> > lighttp is one such project and that web server fines its place on sites
> > like youtube!.
> >
> > >  Now the
> > > task on hand is how  to save Orca and gnome accessibility. All these
> > > days I couldn't do much for gnome or Orca development. from Now I can
> > > spare 4 Hours on Saturday and 1 hour every day. Please advise me what
> > > can I do to sustain this?
> >
> >
> >
> > Bravo!
> > This is one such example.  I would like to appeal to many all community
> > members either programmers or not to uphold this project.
> > I was discussing this matter with a few funding agencies here in India who
> > are keen on foss based accessibility.  They have told me to compile a
> > report
> > on the priority list for orca.  Wil, you might also get a mail from some
> > of
> > those people off the list.
> > I might try and get in some funds in as well.  And it might not be too
> > small
> > a fund or too large.
> > Wil,  can we discuss this off list if you are interested?
> >
> > Happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.
> >
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