Speakup tasks

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi John,

Great, thanks. I'll send my CV over in direct email.

Cheers,
Okash 

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:49:11 -0500
John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Okash, I am still willing to put together a grant request for my
> local Lions Club to get them to buy you a tripletalk. I just need a
> current CV or resume from you. I can write the grant request myself
> because they won't care about the technical details. The grant
> request would have to talk mostly about how important speakup is.
> 
> In fact, there are probably other Lions Club members on this list. If 
> anyone wants me to send them the grant request so they can ask their 
> club, just ask. We can handle the funds 2 ways. We could just send
> them through the International Association Of Visually Impaired 
> Technologists.  Or we could coordinate one club buying a tripletalk, 
> another buying a dectalk, etc.
> 
> What I intend to do is to ask the Lions Club for a donation to IAVIT
> for the purposes of buying a tripletalk. But if they seem to want to
> buy the synth itself, that will be fine.
> 
> On 3/12/19 8:10 AM, Okash Khawaja wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I have time in between jobs so I wanted to ask which speakup tasks
> > to take up. There is a list on the github page[1]. If there are
> > tasks which aren't listed there, please add them or let me know and
> > I'll add them.
> > 
> > I would like to start off with separating out speakup ldisc into its
> > own module [2], as it will be quick and act as a warm up in getting
> > back to knowing the code. I can start sending patches in next
> > couple of days. If someone has an objection please let me know.
> > 
> > Last thing Samuel and I were looking at was DECtalk/TripleTalk USB
> > support and USB autoload. This was over a year ago. I was trying to
> > get hold of hardware upon which to develop the driver.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Okash
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/bytefire/speakup/issues
> > [2] https://github.com/bytefire/speakup/issues/4
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