[Blindtlk] Introducing NonvisualDevelopment.org (fwd)

[Kirk Harmon]

Eric, I will go ahead and send you an early Happy Birthday greeting so as to 
reduce your E-mails on your special day! I wish you a very 34th Birthday and 
many more to come! Kirk Harmon
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From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
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Subject: [Blindtlk] Introducing NonvisualDevelopment.org (fwd)


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>>Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:48:02 -0500 (EST)
>>From: Jamal Mazrui <empower at smart.net>
>>Subject: [jawsscripts] Introducing NonvisualDevelopment.org (fwd)
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>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:32:19 -0500 (EST)
>>From: Jamal Mazrui <empower at smart.net>
>>Reply-To: jawsscripts at freelists.org
>>To: jawsscripts at freelists.org, program-l at freelists.org
>>Subject: [jawsscripts] Introducing NonvisualDevelopment.org
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>>I originally tried to post this on the ProgrammingBlind list yesterday,
>>but that list is having problems delivering messages.  I am now forwarding
>>the message to a couple of other blind programming related lists in case
>>it is of interest there as well.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Jamal
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>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:41:44 -0500 (EST)
>>From: Jamal Mazrui <empower at smart.net>
>>To: programmingblind at freelists.org
>>Subject: Introducing NonvisualDevelopment.org
>>
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>>As you know, the web page of EmpowermentZone.com has not been updated for
>>years after I began focusing on software projects.  I knew the site needed
>>a redesign, but wanted to work on Windows GUI development, so left it
>>there as a community service for whoever still found it useful, and
>>instead posted direct links to program or documentation files that I added
>>to the site.  Inthane, Jeff Bishop, and others gathered some of these
>>links on pages of their sites in order to ease finding them --
>>collaboration I appreciate.
>>
>>Last year, I agreed to take over a community project, begun by Chris
>>Hofstader, to develop a C# tutorial for JAWS users.  I expanded the scope
>>to any .NET language and any screen reader, naming the project Nonvisual
>>Development with .NET.  List members suggested a wiki as a vehicle for
>>collaborating on the tutorial, and for months, Pratik Patel and I have
>>been investigating how best to do this.
>>
>>Recently, I concluded that the content management system (CMS) called
>>Drupal, available at
>>http://drupal.org
>>has the optimal balance of power and friendliness among free, open source
>>choices of a CMS at this time.  I decided to try to achieve multiple
>>objectives in a Drupal-based site that provides a complete directory of
>>programs and documentation I have posted, and promotes collaboration on
>>developing nonvisually with various languages and tools.   With
>>encouragement from Jim Homme, webmaster of BlindProgramming.com, I am now
>>introducing a site called Nonvisual Development, located at
>>http://NonvisualDevelopment.org
>>
>>The site is under construction, and your collaboration is sought to help
>>make it as valuable a community resource as possible.  So far, its design
>>is by  me, but its coding is by a blind developer, Chetan Bakhru, whose
>>services I have hired and would recommend to anyone interested in working
>>with PHP, Drupal, or other web technologies.  Chetan is the webmaster of
>>http://blind-planet.com
>>
>>At present, the content of NonvisualDevelopment.org is primarily either
>>mine or links I have collected.  I intend to build ways for other
>>developers to add content and collaborate.  We are working within the
>>capabilities and constraints of Drupal 6.1 and the Zen theme.  Feedback,
>>suggestions, and other contributions can help move this project forward.
>>
>>Jamal
>>
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