Re: Did you contribute to the Visual Studio Scripts, I want to know!

  • From: "Andreas Stefik" <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:58:44 -0700

Thanks, Folks.

Scientific papers list contributors in the order by which the largest
contribution was made. I know that's a somewhat subjective way of doing
things (and it is pretty subjective in science writing in general), but
that's just the way it is. Any idea which ordering would be the most fair in
this case?

After reading the posts, my "guess" as to what is fair, would be:

Will Pearson, Travis Roth, Jamal Mazrui, Ken Perry, Sina Bahram, Peter
Torpey

Anyone else have any thoughts? Jamal, what do you think (If you are reading
this post?)

Andreas


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Ricks Place <OFBGMail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hi:
> Those guys Ken mentions are the main folks I remember as some of the root
> developers. Will Pearson was one of the most interesting of all the gurus.
> He was a Microsoft VIP and had an amazing understanding of the MS
> development environment from a practicle and theoretical perspective. If I
> remember he was working on his PHD over in England. Eventually he had other
> projects whichhave dragged him away from posting much on list but he was an
> amazing intellect when it came to anything Microsoft related.
> I think Ken or Sina or Inthane might know how you might contact him if you
> want to do a short bio on the guys. Ken, Sina, Inthane and others continue
> posting on list and are very sharp, experienced  and well educated minds. 
> Inthane has built the backbone of the blind repository for allot of
> documentation and is, or was, a student if I remember. A short bio in a
> University peer publication would be a nice little pat on the back for those
> folks who opened up the Visual Studio Programming Environment to the rest of
> us.
> Rick Farmington Mich. USA
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:59 PM
> *Subject:* RE: Did you contribute to the Visual Studio Scripts, I want to
> know!
>
>
>
> Last time I looked all the contributors were listed in the top of the
> script file.  In fact I just opened it with my reply and here is what it
> says
>
>
> ;Contributors (alphabetically): Sina Bahram, Jamal Mazrui, Will Pearson,
> Ken Perry, Travis Roth, Peter Torpey
>
>
>
> Now with that said if you want to know kind of a chronology to things it
> started with Will and Travis  working with Microsoft.  I am not sure if
> Travis worked with Microsoft directly but I know Will was.  They had created
> a lot of basic scripts for it.  I then came along and asked if anyone had
> wrote anything.  Both travis and Will told me they had stuff but it was not
> ready for release.  I asked them for their code so I could put something
> together that people could use until something better came along.  So with
> their code and a bit of what I wrote the first scripts were born.  After
> that jamal has taken the project and ran like a crazed professional line
> backer straight through a high school defense.  The others listed have done
> modifications to fit certain needs.
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Andreas Stefik
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:26 PM
> *To:* programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Did you contribute to the Visual Studio Scripts, I want to
> know!
>
>  Hey everyone,
>
> It's been a while since I've mailed the list (quite the hectic summer for
> me, as I was looking for work (I ended up taking a professorship at Central
> Washington University)).
>
> So everyone knows, I'm currently working on a journal publication of some
> of the blind programming work I've been doing over the last few years. In
> it, I want to site the Visual Studio 2005-8 JAWS scripts available on the
> grab bag site, and mention them as being the best available scripts for the
> environment (that I know of!).
>
> So, what does that mean?
>
> If you were a primary contributor to the scripts and you would like to
> obtain credit, please email in this thread with your full name.
> Alternatively, if you don't feel comfortable putting your name out publicly,
> but want credit, you can email me directly.
>
> And last, does anyone have an official contributor list? I only want to
> cite the top contributors (especially if there are many!), as there isn't
> much space in publications usually.
>
> Hope to hear from you, hope everyone is having a great summer.
>
> Andreas
>
>

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