[Hackability] hey is this list active anymore?

[Romy Ilano]

zach you have good points!

I mean, I'm on the Noisebridge mailing lists. There is a lot of necessary
administrative work and things to deal with.

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!




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Romy Ilano
romy at snowyla.com



On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Zach <organic_unity at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yep, we're still here :)
>
> 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.
> My two cents, but anyway I'd like to see this list more active and teach
> more classes!
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> On Sat, 4/25/15, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: [Hackability] hey is this list active anymore?
>  To: hackability at lists.noisebridge.net
>  Date: Saturday, April 25, 2015, 7:59 PM
>
>  I enjoyed talking to
>  people on here. Breaking my ankle and getting around in SF
>  opened my eyes to a lot of issues!
>  A lot of the accessibility APIs are so easy to
>  implement on mobile phones nowadays. Apple and I think
>  Google are doing a cool job - I'm sure there are open
>  source projects.
>  Even if we don't have time to do these
>  projects every day they are pretty cool. i think a lot of
>  early PhD work on location based technology came up with
>  scenarios around not just military work but also tools to
>  help the disabled.
>  So in a way you can say that helping "vision
>  impaired/hearing impaired" (I don't know the
>  correct terms) people were major things that pushed
>  innovation in tech forward.
>  Wasn't the guy
>  who invented the digital text OCR technology concerned only
>  about helping blind people read first?
>
>  it is blind and deaf people who are
>  part of the tech revolution!
>
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>  Romy Ilanoromy at snowyla.com
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