A relatively new non-profit effort to stimulate development of more open source assistive software. Excerpts from the article follow the link. I know nothing about this group beyond what it says in the article. The planned collaboration between users and developers sounds good though. <http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/18/technology/18software.php?page=2>. One computer program would allow vision-impaired shoppers to point their cellphones at supermarket shelves and hear descriptions of products and prices. Another would allow a physically disabled person to guide a computer mouse using brain waves and eye movements. The two programs were among those created by eight groups of volunteers at a two-day software-writing competition this fall. The goal of the competition, sponsored by a nonprofit corporation, is to encourage new computer programs that help disabled people expand their capabilities. ... Project:Possibility directors have plans for more ambitious projects. First, there will be a competition in February with teams of computer science students at the University of California, Los Angeles, in hopes of multiplying the number of programs to help the disabled. The project also plans to create a worldwide open-source Web site on which disabled persons and software developers can collaborate on new ideas and add to existing programs. "Imagine a specialist Facebook or MySpace-type social network in which users would be involved in designing the tools they want and need," said Stephen Lee, a British software developer who operates Fullmeasure.co.UK and is a director of Project:Possibility. "Students would talk to users and work on projects that meet needs as well as be exciting." [From article page 2] Nor does Project:Possibility intend to be a commercial venture, Leung said. "We do not plan to earn revenue through a spread of our programs. In fact," he said, "we plan to be completely open-source — our programs can be downloaded, modified and used by anyone at no cost — in hopes that similar programs will spread to other universities and around the world with or without our involvement." [more] Best regards, Paul -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list