Hi Storm Well said, and I agree. I'd be willing to donate some though I'm not rich, in addition to working on the code when I can. Btw, where reformatting is concerned, I just make /home its own partition. Then I can reformat all I want without touching my data. :D
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 11:42 -0500, Storm Dragon wrote: > Hi, > I thought time and code donations would be good enough too, but look > what happened to Sun. Worse yet, look what it got replaced with and > the havoc it has caused. I can't donate much to the cause, maybe $5 or > $10 a month, but something has to be done. We can't take the chance > that something this terrible could happen in other companies too. In > fact, I would start a whole donation to open source software awareness > project, if only there were a place to make sure that at least some of > it got funneled in to accessibility specifically. I think there should > be two poptions, maybe set up through paypal. The first would be a > one-time donation, you could enter an amount and make a payment. the > second would be a recurring payment. I am not sure if the paypal code > allows for picking your own amount in that situation, so there may be > a need to make 4 or 5 buttons, $5, $10, $25, or $50 per month. Maybe > have a list box on the form that allows you to specify what the money > should be used for, accessibility, language translation, general use, > etc. > I think that this would make it easier for Canonical to add more > people to the accessibility team, or indeed, let the one person they > have work on it full time. I know that $5 a month isn't much when it's > just 1 person, but if 100 did it, well $500 a month can make a bit of > a difference. > Accessible distros are great in some ways, they solve a lot of > problems for people, especially newbies who want and expect things to > just work. The problem I have with them, is that when Linux gains > enough popularity that it is installed on public computers, like at > the library say, it's probably not going to be the accessible distro. > So, I prefer to try making the main stream distros as accessible out > of the box as they can be. This is of course thinking in the long > term. But, it will get here eventually. So, that, combined with a > growing dislike of reformatting is why I haven't switched to one of > the Vinux distros. Well, it is mostly the dislike of reformatting, I > have a lot of stuff on this computer lol. > I will keep what code I can do coming and contribute in any other way > that I can. But, maybe the powers that be will read this and set up a > good way to donate to the cause financially too. > Thanks > Storm > > -- > Follow me on Twitter: > http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 > My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: > http://www.stormdragon.us/ > What color dragon are you? > http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/alustriel07/what-color-dragon-would-you-be/ > > > > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 11:16 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: > > Hi, Storm. Personally, I think you should save your money for beer, > > and continue contributing as you have - with your time. > > > > What we really need is at least another full time person at > > Canonical working full-time on accessibility, and of course, I vote > > for Willie. Short of that, perhaps we can do a better job > > organizing the community to focus on work that needs to get done. > > My own feeling is that we should work in an accessibility sand-box, > > which feeds into Ubuntu and the other distros. I think we can do > > that with Vinux based on Ubuntu. > > > > Bill > > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Storm Dragon > > <stormdragon2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a site, or some way to donate to Ubuntu in such a > > way that the donated funds will go towards accessibility > > specifically? I would like to be able to donate to projects > > like Orca and speech-dispatcher, but as far as I know, right > > now that would meen donating to Oracle. This, I will never > > do, not even if hell does freeze over. So, the next best > > thing would be to donate to the distro specifically, but I > > would like to know that my donations are supporting the > > programs that make the distro accessible to me. > > thanks > > Storm > > > > -- > > Follow me on Twitter: > > http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 > > My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: > > http://www.stormdragon.us/ > > What color dragon are you? > > > > http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/alustriel07/what-color-dragon-would-you-be/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > > > >
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