Re: [orca-list] donations

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Time and time again, I have wished to get some serious documentation,
I am expert in Python, know some little bit about accessibility 
infrastructure of Gnome and don't really need donation, coz some funds I 
can arrange locally and put some developers to work along with me in my 
own organization Digital Freedom Foundation <www.dff.org.in>
Just get me started with some basic explanation on the entry point and a 
few Orca modules, that's it.
I have mailed several times about this but I have not got any 
constructive reply so far.
Hope this time I will get, now that the issue has come up for discussion.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Sunday 31 August 2014 04:46 AM, B. Henry wrote:
> 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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> > >
> > >
> > >   Derek Riemer
> > >
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> > >
> > > email me at derek riemer colorado edu <mailto:derek riemer colorado edu>
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> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
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> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
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> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp