[Nfb-science] Fwd: [gui-talk] Article: Mozilla Foundation grant allows for employment of NVDA full-time developer

[David Andrews]

>
>The following article is taken from the NVDA Happenings blog at 
>www.nvda-project.org/blog.  NVDA is a free and open source Windows 
>screen reader.  More information about NVDA and links to download 
>NVDA can be found at www.nvda-project.org.  -Steve.
>
>Mozilla Foundation grant allows for employment of NVDA full-time developer
>January 14th, 2008
>
>Thanks to the generocity and support of the Mozilla Foundation NV Access
>has been able to hire James Teh as a full-time developer to work on 
>NVDA. The Mozilla
>Foundation has taken a keen interest in NVDA as one of NVDA's goals 
>is to provide
>excellent support for Mozilla products, such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
>
>The grant (which provides NV Access with US$80,000 over 2008) allows 
>NV Access to
>employ James Teh (Jamie) full-time to work on improving and 
>maintaining NVDA, with
>a major focus on Mozilla products. The grant will be also used to 
>cover overheads
>for the running of NV Access, which a part from general 
>administration, also includes
>project promotion and the seeking of further funding.
>
>NV Access and Mozilla worked together to draw up a list of grant 
>goals for NVDA,
>which both organizations see as the most important things that 
>should be achieved
>to make the project a success. Although the grant will be reviewed 
>before the end
>of this year, all the goals listed are to be completed with in a 
>three year timeline.
>
>Jamie will hopefully be starting work in the next month or so, once 
>all the admin
>has been organized. I for one am very excited to have Jamie join the 
>project on a
>much more full-time basis, and I know he is also very excited to be 
>able to put all
>his working time to open-source projects that hopefully can improve 
>the lives of
>people in the community in some way.
>
>On behalf of NV Access, and the other developers of NVDA I would 
>like to thank the
>Mozilla Foundation for its support over the last year. Together we 
>can make sure
>that blind users will always have both a free choice when it comes 
>to access to applications
>on the Microsoft Windows Operating System, and also a choice to move 
>forward with
>the rest of the community, to use free and open-source products 
>(such as Firefox
>and Thunderbird).