Donations to Ubuntu accessibility

[Ignasi Cambra]

I think the idea is good. I would be willing to donate although I would like to be able to decide the amount each time.
Who should set this up, and where would the money go exactly? Straight to Canonical, somewhere else?
On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:

> That's not a bad idea, I have just recently gotten a somewhat shakey understanding of partitioning and how to do it. Maybe if ther need arrises, I will do it that way next time. Unless, is there a way to do it after everything's already installed?
> thanks
> Storm
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> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 09:52 -0700, Jacob Schmude wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Storm
>> Well said, and I agree. I'd be willing to donate some though I'm not
>> rich, in addition to working on the code when I can.
>> Btw, where reformatting is concerned, I just make /home its own
>> partition. Then I can reformat all I want without touching my data. :D
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 11:42 -0500, Storm Dragon wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I thought time and code donations would be good enough too, but look
>> > what happened to Sun. Worse yet, look what it got replaced with and
>> > the havoc it has caused. I can't donate much to the cause, maybe $5 or
>> > $10 a month, but something has to be done. We can't take the chance
>> > that something this terrible could happen in other companies too. In
>> > fact, I would start a whole donation to open source software awareness
>> > project, if only there were a place to make sure that at least some of
>> > it got funneled in to accessibility specifically. I think there should
>> > be two poptions, maybe set up through paypal. The first would be a
>> > one-time donation, you could enter an amount and make a payment. the
>> > second would be a recurring payment. I am not sure if the paypal code
>> > allows for picking your own amount in that situation, so there may be
>> > a need to make 4 or 5 buttons, $5, $10, $25, or $50 per month. Maybe
>> > have a list box on the form that allows you to specify what the money
>> > should be used for, accessibility, language translation, general use,
>> > etc.
>> > I think that this would make it easier for Canonical to add more
>> > people to the accessibility team, or indeed, let the one person they
>> > have work on it full time. I know that $5 a month isn't much when it's
>> > just 1 person, but if 100 did it, well $500 a month can make a bit of
>> > a difference.
>> > Accessible distros are great in some ways, they solve a lot of
>> > problems for people, especially newbies who want and expect things to
>> > just work. The problem I have with them, is that when Linux gains
>> > enough popularity that it is installed on public computers, like at
>> > the library say, it's probably not going to be the accessible distro.
>> > So, I prefer to try making the main stream distros as accessible out
>> > of the box as they can be. This is of course thinking in the long
>> > term. But, it will get here eventually. So, that, combined with a
>> > growing dislike of reformatting is why I haven't switched to one of
>> > the Vinux distros. Well, it is mostly the dislike of reformatting, I
>> > have a lot of stuff on this computer lol.
>> > I will keep what code I can do coming and contribute in any other way
>> > that I can. But, maybe the powers that be will read this and set up a
>> > good way to donate to the cause financially too.
>> > Thanks
>> > Storm
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>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 11:16 -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
>> > > Hi, Storm.  Personally, I think you should save your money for beer,
>> > > and continue contributing as you have - with your time.
>> > > 
>> > > What we really need is at least another full time person at
>> > > Canonical working full-time on accessibility, and of course, I vote
>> > > for Willie.  Short of that, perhaps we can do a better job
>> > > organizing the community to focus on work that needs to get done.
>> > > My own feeling is that we should work in an accessibility sand-box,
>> > > which feeds into Ubuntu and the other distros.  I think we can do
>> > > that with Vinux based on Ubuntu.
>> > > 
>> > > Bill
>> > > 
>> > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Storm Dragon
>> > > <stormdragon2976 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >         Hi,
>> > >         Is there a site, or some way to donate to Ubuntu in such a
>> > >         way that the donated funds will go towards accessibility
>> > >         specifically? I would like to be able to donate to projects
>> > >         like Orca and speech-dispatcher, but as far as I know, right
>> > >         now that would meen donating to Oracle. This, I will never
>> > >         do, not even if hell does freeze over. So, the next best
>> > >         thing would be to donate to the distro specifically, but I
>> > >         would like to know that my donations are supporting the
>> > >         programs that make the distro accessible to me.
>> > >         thanks
>> > >         Storm
>> > >         
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>> > >         
>> > >         
>> > >         
>> > >         
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