Re: [nvda-translations] leaflet to promote NVDA

Hi Jim,

Yes indeed this is exactly what i intended with the email that was sent earlier 
in the month, subject: support nvda or lose it. 
But then many of them wanted to eat my flesh for breakfast. It is this exact 
understanding of self determination that some 
people are failing to understand. Of course there will be people who can not 
donate, but at least write to your blind union to 
say how good NVDA is. Some people are not even bothered to do that.

Of course there are good people who take their responsibility seriously and 
donate good amounts regularly, but it doesnt make 
up for those that are not acting.


I dont know if paypal also breaks down the donations by country, but it would 
be intresting to see if the 
ratios still hold. Even if america+canada and the europian countries donated we 
would be able to maintain nvda at a good 
level. I say that because international bank transfers from some parts of 
asia+middle east and africa can be quite expensive.

The reason why i wanted a good leaflet is so that we can bypass all the 
ignorant blind people, and try to go directly to the 
bigger blind organizations, and give them the facts as they are.
The leaflet is not aimed just at organizations, but also any possibly sighted 
or those who have their heart in the right 
place. We should not exclude the blind user from also taking his/her 
responsibility.

Yes I have also done the maths long ago, and agree with you completely about 
wanting to hire another programmer or 
administrator, but if we cant even keep Jamie and Mick working for us then 
there is something seriously wrong with our 
community.

I even suggested doing something fun in their physical communities, such as 
running to do fundraising or tandem cycling or 
whatever they wanted to do, anything to get the donations up.

Thanks again for taking this issue seriously.
Mesar

On Fri 20/04/12,19:19, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi Mesar,
> But can you see, even given the conservative figures, how powerful this is? 
> That's what I'm trying to point out--how easy this would be if we would all 
> do one, simple thing. Problem solved with so little effort by each one of us.
> 
> Jim
>

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