proposal for speech dispatcher and speechd-up continued maintenance

[William Hubbs]

Brailcom Staff:

I don't know if the first time we sent this got through, so I am
resending.  We need to know your comments about us moving
speech-dispatcher and speechd-up to a site that is run by the
accessibility community.

We realize that you cannot give us any promise of resources for these
projects (based on what was said in your response to our open letter),
so we are offering to maintain these projects.

Please write back and give us your comments.

with kind regards,

the speech dispatcher users community

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:55:04PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> Brailcom staff:
> 
> In your response to our open letter, you stated that you cannot promise any
> resources for future development of the speech dispatcher project.
> 
> We have also noticed that there hasn't been any work done on the TTSAPI
> project since May 2008.
> 
> Because of this, the community would like to make a proposal to you.
> 
> The community believes that there are enough resources available to clean up
> speech dispatcher's design, whilst also making speech dispatcher TTSAPI
> compliant. The community believes speech-dispatcher is the way forward because
> speech dispatcher in its current form works now,  and will allow an easier
> transition to TTSAPI thanks to a working code base. This will also reduce
> time spent writing TTSAPI support code and debugging, allowing
> TTSAPI to be usable that much sooner.
> 
> Someone in the community has offered to register a domain and host a community
> based site for Speech Dispatcher and Speechd-Up development.  We would be able
> to migrate all of the source code for you to the new site, and, of course, you
> would still be welcome as part of the community.
> 
> Can you give us a decision by March 4 utc regarding whether you accept this
> proposal?
> 
> With Kind Regards,
> 
> the Speech Dispatcher users community
> 
> William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com>
> Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org>
> Luke Yelavich <themuso at themuso.com>
> Christopher Brannon <cmbrannon79 at gmail.com>
> Kirk Reiser <kirk at reisers.ca>
> Trevor Saunders <trev.saunders at gmail.com>
> Andrei Kholodnyi <Andrei.Kholodnyi at windriver.com>
> Willie Walker <walker.willie at gmail.com>
> Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com>
> Steve Holmes <steve.holmes88 at gmail.com>
> Halim Sahin <halim at openblinux.de>
> Jacob Schmude <j.schmude at gmail.com>
> William F. Acker <wacker at octothorp.org>
> Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net>
>