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

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

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.