<div dir="ltr">zach you have good points!<div><br></div><div>I mean, I'm on the Noisebridge mailing lists. There is a lot of necessary administrative work and things to deal with. </div><div><br></div><div>But this list is one of those that really makes me feel nice, and it brought a lot of people together, however snarky we may be!</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div><div>=============================</div><div><br></div><div>Romy Ilano</div><div><a href="mailto:romy@snowyla.com" target="_blank">romy@snowyla.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Zach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:organic_unity@yahoo.com" target="_blank">organic_unity@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yep, we're still here :)<br>
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Some neat observations. yeah, I know some people in tech that care about helping the disabled a lot and have their hearts in the right place. Unfortunately, the military has ZERO interest in helping disabled folks, in fact they are responsible for a VAST percentage of disability in the world thanks to meaningless wars for oil and money. Their "innovations" don't ever really support human life in any capacity.<br>
My two cents, but anyway I'd like to see this list more active and teach more classes!<br>
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On Sat, 4/25/15, Romy Ilano <<a href="mailto:romy@snowyla.com">romy@snowyla.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: [Hackability] hey is this list active anymore?<br>
To: <a href="mailto:hackability@lists.noisebridge.net">hackability@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2015, 7:59 PM<br>
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I enjoyed talking to<br>
people on here. Breaking my ankle and getting around in SF<br>
opened my eyes to a lot of issues! <br>
A lot of the accessibility APIs are so easy to<br>
implement on mobile phones nowadays. Apple and I think<br>
Google are doing a cool job - I'm sure there are open<br>
source projects.<br>
Even if we don't have time to do these<br>
projects every day they are pretty cool. i think a lot of<br>
early PhD work on location based technology came up with<br>
scenarios around not just military work but also tools to<br>
help the disabled.<br>
So in a way you can say that helping "vision<br>
impaired/hearing impaired" (I don't know the<br>
correct terms) people were major things that pushed<br>
innovation in tech forward.<br>
Wasn't the guy<br>
who invented the digital text OCR technology concerned only<br>
about helping blind people read first?<br>
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it is blind and deaf people who are<br>
part of the tech revolution!<br>
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