G'day, I'd be happy to contribute some $$ if it means that the development of Speakup kept pace with that of kernel releases, etc. The main question though for me at least is whether the current stake holders will be willing to devote sufficient time to the ongoing development given the/any monetary angles? As for the lack of coders... yup it's always een a problem! Cheers. AB -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kerry Hoath Sent: Sunday, 30 December 2007 9:06 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Speakup's future I think what is happening here is that there are plenty of users and not enough coders. If more people were working on speakup than Kirk and a few friends then it would develop faster. Unfortunately 100 or 200 users asking what the deal is won't cause any development. People are usually motivated by money or desire or whatever; so perhaps getting more programmers to work on speakup by taking donations from users would help the cause. The kernel folks aren't that interested in speakup; they have other priorities and there just aren't programmers working on the code to keep pace with the kernels. Keep in mind that all comercial screen readers develop faster because they have paid programmers. nvda thunder gnopernicus and the like are all developing slowly due to a lack of fulltime paid programming tallent. Perhaps with this new wave of ultra-mobile pcs such as the Asus eeepc and the like; more people will work on speakup in order that we may have access to this platform. Sadly; free software is used by a lot of people but only developed by a few. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Klein" <garrettklein@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:40 PM Subject: Speakup's future > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hello all, > > What is the future of speakup? Kirk? Anyone? Is the git > repository going to sit there and collect dust? I need speakup > since yasr just sucks and I don't trust gnome-terminal to > everything. Speakup 3.0 with 2.6.22.15 was a no-go for me with > "no such device" errors when modprobing speakup_dectlk. > > So, what's going to happen to our beloved Speakup? > > Garrett > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJHd3WxAAoJEDH5wg/gDs13rOEP/ijjH/ZDC54RHTWvXdNCLGAG > RUmxgXxNohOIXD4bdAue7rOMmtW1JKbvVvgi6z68JD5k+T9Mqcoa/Fas0YccLtoo > 0eDHp6RWg4ResWhiQHQNNLAosOVNZZ6q0I1L4IxzZBVvhEHGUbDMCUbKpL5MKVBA > JrYWK//MxFFvJMecDJpmZfaLjArpiIr4iE6yQ3qT9Tl5X8k3V6yV7+Ds05b/eWNE > YrUgmiusTkP+PY4/MqyX+a0LCwC00/crXiG0w4SrEb7s4Nuo5iTz2HVzTg0kb/ek > Y3np7RE1G60DBHkvXPOlC4EHamqNuwZhrLvoEc+/uIO54eDoxcBO8qUciMJRJrCb > T6ErTfGLQe65AYTJeHD4tr13Ex5BmVi9HQPZZuCnW3aHvM+dYvtZSv8VC/aawbM5 > CY26ygFcgBa0JPOqx5Qt0+dPy6Qy3meJ0RMmWYZ5uxU9TJo1k4ZjV6/1LfvzLMEO > ih1YpK2e9cRNUMt5CqEpNm+l7ItGcJLrTFMjruAPIIdKyF6dT+jDlsx4/eoUKCkw > Jf+k7QuYLktkkxVvQjd5mje+Mch+PWN1Z5W3l8JMTa5VfcgOmgvdEBIsFgAplCfz > Zvg9Euedgvl05YtzxfYE4E9Eg6ikjaWqSrvJPtEPlWrS9y6TQeEAaJdUogCOwy5f > VCVWtrRDZRzcPQwS6RlV > =kWGU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup __________ NOD32 2755 (20071229) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
