[SGVLUG] SCaLE disability issues OS

[James McDuffie]

I've recently read about some interesting open source news related to helping people with disabilities:

Stephen Hawking’s Intel speech system is now open source
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/08/18/stephen-hawkings-intel-speech-system-is-now-open-source/

Built from the ground up open source eye tracking camera for people with
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) / Motor Neuron Disease (MND):
https://github.com/JuliusSweetland/OptiKey/wiki


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015, at 04:58 PM, Braddock Gaskill wrote:
> I am very interested in this disability SIG.  How do I get in touch
> with Bill?
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> -braddock
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
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As announced at last night's LUG, Bill Zuke, one of our LUG/HAK members,
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asked us to relay the following message:
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Please make a short announcement at the SGVLUG meetings, a special
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interest group is forming around OS and persons with disabilities.  The
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group will be in contact on-line with each other during the year, and be
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involved with SCaLE.  The intent is to bring individuals together over
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issues of making OS available to people with special needs.  This
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includes programmers who wish to do humanitarian projects, individuals
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interested in home automation, and any one working on a specific
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disability access problem.  We hope to encourage and assist any one who
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has a good idea which may not be getting adequate attention in other
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groups.
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I do not feel comfortable posting Bill's information on the list, since
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it'll be archived and spidered in a matter of days.
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If you're interested in this endeavor, I'll pass on his full email with
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his contact information.  I believe phone is the best way to reach him
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as my previous attempts to return his email always bounce--he
uses lafn.org
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Lan
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