Re: New Position

  • From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 06:58:00 -0500

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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