Re: [orca-list] details on orca support

[Willie Walker <walker willie gmail com>]

Hi Hank!  There are many ways you can help Orca and GNOME Accessibility
without needing to be a programmer.  Take a look at
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp for some ideas. :-)  We look
forward to seeing you participate!

Will

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:58 -0700, hank smith wrote:
> how hard is it to learn programming fore orca?
> where would I start?
> I never programmed before but I want to help some how
> orca mussant die
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willie Walker" <walker willie gmail com>
> To: "Bill Cox" <waywardgeek gmail com>
> Cc: <aerospace1028 hotmail com>; <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] details on orca support
>
>
> > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 10:07 -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
> > > I totally agree that we need to look forward.  I see that several
> > > programmers have offered to help on this list.  I've subscribed to the
> > > orca-devel list, but there hasn't been a post there since October.
> >
> > Yeah - we were going to do the world's most wonderful refactor of Orca
> > based upon all that we had learned while creating it.  But...well...you
> > know, the word "refactor" doesn't float so well with management when
> > other words such as "no budget" are in the air.  So, the orca-devel-list
> > is somewhat dormant and we use the orca-list and bugzilla for all of our
> > discussions.
> >
> > > Might it be time to try and fire-up a community effort around Orca?
> > > Willie, with your guidance, there could be several new Orca developers
> > > helping out in short order, I think.  I'm pretty swamped with work and
> > > Vinux support, but longer-term, I'd like to be one of those Orca
> > > developers.
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2010-February/msg00117.html has
> > some tips on getting started. Please let me know if you need more
> > information to get going.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Will
> >
> >
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