Re: [nvda-translations] email to NVDA community
- From: fatma mehanna <fatma.mehanna@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nvda-translations@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:44:40 +0200
hi mesar and all,
thanks for your keeness.
the email is so expressive and it conveys the message.
On 3/29/12, David Hole <balubathebrave@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi. As far as I can read, it seems OK.
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> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 13:49, Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi team,
>>
>> I took some time to write the following email in our name,
>> Can you please read it and say if you are ok or if I have missed
>> something.
>>
>> What I want to do after we are finnished, is to send it to the nvda users
>> mailing list, the nvda freelist and for you to translate it
>> and send it to nvda language lists or post it on community websites.
>>
>> below is the email so far:
>>
>> subject: support NVDA or you will lose it.
>>
>> Dear nvda users,
>>
>> Sorry for the long email, please bare with us to the end.
>>
>> The time has come to show your appreciation and your determination for
>> NVDA development to continue.
>> Due to the economic downturn NV Access has received less grants than what
>> we would have hoped for.
>>
>> We all have a duty and an obligation to request from the organizations
>> working for the blind such as the RNIB, UK or AFB/NFB, USA or the
>> appropriate blind organization in your country, to tell them that NVDA has
>> been and continues to be a useful and valuable tool to provide
>> accessibility for all of us and that they should promote and sponsor the
>> excellent work that is being done.
>>
>> Despite all the politics and the slow movement within organizations, we
>> the real NVDA users are able to keep NVDA development going
>> if each one of us took their responsibility seriously.
>> This is without having to wait for organizations or companies to give
>> grants to NV Access.
>>
>> Due to many advantages, benefits and unique features of NVDA, the number
>> of NVDA users are growing but sadly the personal donations are not
>> matching this increase and are often not regular.
>>
>> What we want to say clearly is that any regular donation large or small,
>> will keep Jamie and Michael in their full time employment working for
>> NVDA.
>> What we have to remember is that they are two blind individuals like you
>> and me, but are gifted with rare skills that many of us could benefit
>> from.
>>
>> We should work hard not to put them in a situation where they have to
>> choose between doing something that they love and beleave in (improving
>> NVDA), and having to provide the necessities for their families and
>> children.
>>
>> The current funding is able to keep both of them employed until september
>> this year, and if the donations haven't increased by then
>> they may have to look for alternative employment.
>>
>> Even if one of them leaves and the other continues the work load will be
>> a lot harder, and progress will be much slower.
>> This will directly impact on us because we will have to wait for much
>> longer before tickets can be solved, which will cause us a lot of
>> frustration and anguish. This is not what we have been accustomed to in
>> the last few years, we often see regular releases and each version is
>> superior to the previous one.
>>
>> We all need to understand that, what is required is for each one of us to
>> donate according to our circumstances, may it be as little as 5 or 10
>> dollars a month, this will be enough to keep the project going.
>> We Thank those of you who already donate on a regular basis.
>>
>> Put this in context, we easely spend 5 dollars on a coffee
>> or 10/20 dollars on a meal when we eat out, surely NVDA deserves this
>> token amount?
>>
>> Many people do charity events, such as running a marathon, doing a tandem
>> ride, or baking and seling cakes in their community to raise money for
>> canser research or any other worth while charity, we can all do the same
>> but for NV Access which is also a charity.
>>
>> Please don't lose this opportunity to support NVDA, because if we fail to
>> set up regular donations, in a few months time we will all have to start
>> paying for expensive screenreaders because NVDA would not have been
>> developed and updated to match our latest needs.
>>
>> We are writing this email as individuals that strongly believe in open
>> source, and as volunteer contributors to NVDA. We understand that it is
>> hard for Jamie and Michael to keep sending emails asking for donations
>> because it feels bad to keep asking, but we the users should act before we
>> reach the point of no return.
>>
>> Please repost/translate or anything that you feel appropriate, and please
>> don't forget to raise donations.
>>
>> Link for donations:
>> http://www.nvaccess.org/wiki/Donate
>>
>> Mesar, and NVDA translators.
>>
>>
>>
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