Re: [orca-list] donations

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I wish we could get enough donations to have a serious programmer to do some of the stuff that's maybe 2nd 
priority, or 
best if possible some tasks that Joane could deligate to save here time. 
Anything less than a half time committment for several months seems not so ifficient as most folks would take 
a bit of 
time to not only familiarize themselves with the code, goals, and to a point the history, e.g.things that may 
have not 
worked so well that were tried. That's assuming obviouslly a good knowledge of Linux and at least some 
knowledge of 
accessibility standards, and the existing accessibility stack. 
I think anything less than $10,000 would be poorlly spent assuming paying anything close to going rates for 
good coders. I 
do not know how many orca users would be willing to give enough to make a difference. Also itwould be hard to 
get the word 
to a lot of the users. Of course soome just plain could give little or nothing. 
I think perhaps it is worth considering what is actually possible, including trying to get a handle on how 
many people 
would be willing to donate at least $10, and what if any specific goals they would be willing to support 
economicallyl.
Ipersonally donate a bit to NPR, or atually usually to a station, but would try and find a bit for orca if we 
could 
actually make a notable difference in development, but the way things are for me it'd be $10 maybe twice a 
year.
NVDA certainly must have more users than orca, and I know they did get a fair amount from end users when they 
first 
started pushiing for this a bit. I do not know what they are pulling in on average per month or year now. 
I'd give any money that would possibly go to nvda to Orca for a couple years anyway, again, if we could make 
a real 
difference.

  



On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 06:54:36PM -0400, Storm Dragon wrote:
> Hi,
> A while back, we were told if we wanted to donate to orca we could do either of the following:
> give blood to the red cross
> donate to NPR
> In the spirit of this, I try to give blood everytime the Red Cross is in my neighborhood. I'm not sure if 
> the donations options have changed though.
> HTH
> Storm
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 04:11:30PM -0600, derek riemer wrote:
> > Hey,
> > I use orca for some of my programming work. I was curious, does orca
> > receive funding from individual users? If so, how should I donate a few
> > bucks to it? If not, are there any organizations I should give funding to
> > to thank them for supporting Orca?
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