Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of BRaiLleSPEAK

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        The way we organize Savannah is that packages hold individual
programs, not entire collections of software. By this I mean that you
should register different projects for specific software or
documentation parts of brlspeak. For instance you could register a
project to host the development of the drivers for the braille screen.

        Cheers,
        
address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Osvaldo La Rosa <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: BRaiLleSPEAK
 > System name: brlspeak
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > My project does provide a simple but blindfriendly method for 
 > braille-dependent users to preconfigure their braille display driver before 
 > running Linux.
 > The distribution that is used here is called BrlSpeak; it has been built by 
 > me, it is an UMSDOS Mini-Distribution of Linux that can be unpacked on a FAT 
 > harddisk, and started with LoadLin.
 > BrlSpeak is based on another Mini-Distribution called ZipSpeak, made by 
 > Matthew Campbell. (Notice that ZipSpeak was based on the ZipSlack 
 > distribution, cf. Slackware).
 > The purpose is here to add a full functional and easy to use 
 > preconfiguration tool, in fact a Public batch-file, (provided with the 
 > package), so that blind persons can prepare the configuration file for the 
 > braille device before running BrlSpeak.
 > But it also includes automated compilation of the braille driver + 
 > activation of the braille display at boot time. (Note that the braille 
 > driver package used here in BrlSpeak, is BrlTty; for speech there is the 
 > SpeakUp package built-in.)
 > The main objective is to offer to braille-dependent people a unique Linux 
 > distribution that they can install, without any external assistance of a 
 > valid person.
 > I finished to build BrlSpeak on Nov 1, 2001, I posted it on November the 
 > 17th, 2001; so, it already exists and you can see it at 
 > http://www.audiobraille.org/blinux/brlspeak.html The download URL is: 
 > http://www.audiobraille.org/blinux/brlspeak.zip
 > All instructions and details are available in the BRLSPEAK.TXT file that 
 > comes with the BrlSpeak ZIP file.
 > The BrlSpeak utilities, as well as the CFG.BAT for preconfiguring the 
 > braille device driver, are available in the BRLSPEAK directory.
 > Installing BrlSpeak is very easy:
 > you just need an utility such as Infozip\'s UNZIP.EXE to unpack the 
 > BRLSPEAK.ZIP on a FAT partition where you have DOS;
 > then you enter the LINUX directory, and, after reading the documentation, 
 > you type: CFG \'enter\' and follows all instructions (these are 
 > self-explanatory and you have a \"ready to go\" Linux in a few minutes).
 > I hope this Mini-Distribution can contribute to a better accessibility 
 > (without special knowledge) to the GNU/Linux OS: it was for me a dream to 
 > realize this,
 > and I\'m proud today to be able to offer this BrlSpeak distribution to the 
 > world.
 > Greetings,
 > Osvaldo La Rosa.
 > 

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