----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Curran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Development for NonVisual Desktop Access" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:44 AM Subject: Mozilla Foundation grant allows for employment of NVDA full-timedeveloper
Hi all, Some very good news for NVDA. The following was taken from the latest blog post on the NVDA blog at: http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/ Mozilla Foundation grant allows for employment of NVDA full-time developer Thanks to the generocity and support of the Mozilla Foundation, NV Access has been able to hire James Teh as a full-time developer to work on NVDA. The Mozilla Foundation has taken a keen interest in NVDA as one of NVDA's goals is to provide excellent support for Mozilla products, such as Firefox and Thunderbird. The grant (which provides NV Access with US$80,000 over 2008) allows NV Access to employ James Teh (Jamie) full-time to work on improving and maintaining NVDA, with a major focus on Mozilla products. The grant will be also used to cover overheads for the running of NV Access, which a part from general administration, also includes project promotion and the seeking of further funding. NV Access and Mozilla worked together to draw up a list of grant goals for NVDA, which both organizations see as the most important things that should be achieved to make the project a success. Although the grant will be reviewed before the end of this year, all the goals listed are to be completed with in a three year timeline. You can view the grant goals at: http://trac.nvda-project.org/wiki/GoalsForMozillaGrantDec2007 Jamie will hopefully be starting work in the next month or so, once all the admin has been organized. I for one am very excited to have Jamie join the project on a much more full-time basis, and I know he is also very excited to be able to put all his working time to open-source projects that hopefully can improve the lives of people in the community in some way. On behalf of NV Access, and the other developers of NVDA I would like to thank the Mozilla Foundation for its support over the last year. Together we can make sure that blind users will always have both a free choice when it comes to access to applications on the Microsoft Windows Operating System, and also a choice to move forward with the rest of the community, to use free and open-source products (such as Firefox and Thunderbird). The Mozilla Foundation can be found at: http://www.mozillafoundation.org/ NV Access can be found at: http://www.nvaccess.org/ Mick _______________________________________________ dev-accessibility mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-accessibility
