As of four years ago the Carrol Center was teaching only windows. I know this as a Friend came in as did many others from different countries. The goal was to learn what to teach blind folks in the country they came from. Am I correct in thinking that Carrol center is all funded from Washington ? Lee On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Tony Baechler here. > > Your comments again emphasize the need for a nonprofit organization. I > wouldn't worry too much about the money. Funding will happen once the word > gets out. Oh, it takes time and it won't be immediate, but it can and will > happen. What we need is a grant writer. The government issues grants. There > are many private companies who put lots of funding into Linux. Most major > projects have outside funding. If Mozilla had to survive only on donors, they > wouldn't. Debian gets lots of money and servers from HP Enterprise and many > other companies. You're right that the Windows guys get their money mostly > from the government, but not all. Schools are a lot of the market. > > As I said before, start young. Get on social media where teens and young > people are and show them that there is another choice besides Windows and the > Mac. Even if they aren't programmers, they are potential users. One of the > reasons why the Apple II became so successful was because it was given to so > many schools. How many of you grew up on the Apple II in the classroom? There > was a company called Raised Dot Computing. They wrote and sold Bex and other > programs. They were a commercial business. When they started, they had no > money. All of their newsletters are online and well worth reading if you care > about the history of technology for the blind. They hired a grant writer. > After getting several grants, they were able to fund development of their > software, like Braille Edit which became Bex, a program to make AppleWorks > accessible and eventually Mega Dots for the PC. The point is it can be done > and it wouldn't be that difficult, especially with a good social media > presence. > > On 4/24/2017 4:56 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > Kelly Prescott here. > > The reason Windows has better accessibility, is that the government has > > largely funded it. FS and all the other players get a large percentage of > > there purchases from VR dollars which is the good old tax payer! > > So while a private company developes it, Uncle Sam really foots the bill! > > I only say that to show how hard it is to get accessible software built and > > maintained. > > I am working on a UEFI boot loader that talks from bootup. I am going to > > release it as open source. > > The thing is: I have to feed me and mine durring this effort. > > This means that I work on borring normal projects most of the time, and my > > boot loader when I have spare time. > > I think there are several developers me among them who would do this full > > time, but if there is no money in it, then we must continue to work on our > > normal jobs/projects until we either have time to work on it or we find some > > good funding to pay for it. > > Unfortunately, I do not know of good ways to obtain lots of money for > > part-time developers. There is only so much free time and free work to go > > around. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- quark: The sound made by a well bred duck. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list