Re: New Position
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:22:29 -0500
Thanks Nick.
On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Nick Stockton wrote:
> Hello Chris.
> Well, I wish you the best of luck. It's good to now have an accessibility
> director and advocate at the GNU foundation. I'm sure you will do a great job.
>
> Nick Stockton
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 3:58 AM
> Subject: Re: New Position
>
>
> Very funny.
>
> Actually, I really enjoy fixing bugs so I wanted to encourage them to give me
> fun things to do <laugh>.
>
> Thanks for the note.
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Nick Stockton wrote:
>
>> Hello Chris.
>> *smile* I hope you see the humor in this, as I did, but surely it would be
>> more beneficial to the blind community to encourage free software hackers to
>> include less accessibility issues in their programs, and more accessibility
>> fixes.
>>
>> Nick Stockton
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 4:48 AM
>> Subject: New Position
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today, I start my new position as Director of Access Technology for Project
>> GNU, the people who brought you GPL, gcc, bash, emacs, bison, flex and lots
>> more.
>>
>> As I am the first and only GNU person to focus on disability issues, I
>> suspect that I will spend most of my time trying to influence other free
>> software hackers to include accessibility issues.
>>
>> I am just returning to the world of free software after nearly 20 years so I
>> am also spending a lot of time catching up on what is and is not out there.
>>
>> If you want to beat up on GPL, write to someone else. If you want to send
>> ideas and/or pointers to me to add to my ever growing task list, please send
>> them directly to me as I don't read the lists thoroughly enough to see
>> everything on them.
>>
>> Happy Hacking,
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