From themuso at themuso.com Wed Nov 8 01:46:30 2017 From: themuso at themuso.com (Luke Yelavich) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:46:30 +1100 Subject: It is time for me to depart. Message-ID: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to announce my departure from free and open source software development. GNU/Linux and free and open source software development has been a part of my life for well over a decade, some high points being my employment at Canonical for over 9 years, and the opportunity to maintain a free software project, Speech Dispatcher. I care very deeply about GNU/Linux accessibility, and free and open source software. I strongly believe that the philosophy behind free software is key to a better future for this world. However, I have lacked motivation of late, and the current state of accessibility on GNU/Linux, as well as the lack of funding for it, has not helped. I also would like to spend more time on other tallants I have, which have been neglected somewhat until recently, and are more likely to bring in a source of income in the future. I am sure I will return one day, with renewed motivation, enthusiasm, and a desire to contribute again. I am also sure I will be keeping watch on what transpires in this community, and since I will still be using GNU/Linux, I may still submit a bug fix from time to time for anything that I find particularly annoying. I step down from my positions as Vinux lead developer, and as Speech Dispatcher maintainer with pride and joy at what has been achieved. I am sorry that I have not fully helped to realize a renewed Vinux distribution based on Fedora, but I am sure that no matter what direction the Vinux project chooses to go, it will be lead well, and received well by the community. I will be closing my patreon campaign. To those who have supported me financially, I thank you deeply. Your support has been much appreciated. You know who you are. I am so grateful for the time I have spent in this community. I have learnt much, and have shared knowledge with others, and both the learning and sharing have always been a pleasure and a joy. It has also been a pleasure to talk to, and work with the free software community at large, but I would particularly like to thank a few people. To Rob Whyte, leader of the Vinux project, I owe a particularly heart felt thank you. You have been a rock and confidant when I have needed someone to talk to, as well as someone who I could blow off steam with, when things have been rough. It has been an honour, and a pleasure, to work with, and get to know you. Feel free to contact me any time if you want to chat. To everybody at Brailcom, particularly Hynek Hanke, Tomas Cerha, and Jan Buchal, I would like to thank for having given me the opportunity to maintain the Speech Dispatcher project. I had many plans to improve Speech Dispatcher, and I am sorry that these were not realized. I am sure the Speech Dispatcher project will still be relevant and developed going forward, and I am sure a maintainer can be found in the community. I wish that maintainer well. I also have to thank Canonical for giving me a chance and a job. I had the opportunitiy to work with some wonderful people while there, and I am happy to have learnt so much, particularly when it comes to building and developing a GNU/Linux distribution. Finally, I would like to thank the community. It has been a pleasure talking with you all, bouncing around ideas, discussing functionality, collectively digging into problems and solving them together. This last decade would have been for nothing if it weren't for all of us, whether we be users, developers, helpers, doc writers, etc. For now, I plan to exit for a while, and watch from the sidelines, but I do hope to return as a more active community member again, in the future. I wish you all well. You will not be forgotten. With kindest regards and best wishes. Luke From lists at janc.be Wed Nov 8 02:53:25 2017 From: lists at janc.be (Jan Claeys) Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 03:53:25 +0100 Subject: It is time for me to depart. In-Reply-To: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> References: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> Message-ID: <1510109605.3610.828.camel@janc.be> On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 12:46 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote: > It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to > announce my departure from free and open source software development. > GNU/Linux and free and open source software development has been a > part of my life for well over a decade, some high points being my > employment at Canonical for over 9 years, and the opportunity to > maintain a free software project, Speech Dispatcher. Thank you, Luke... While I personally don't need/use accessibility features, some people I know do, and I remember seeing your dedication & hard work in the Ubuntu project and outside it. Good luck with your new endeavors! -- Jan Claeys From sthibault at debian.org Sun Nov 12 00:30:15 2017 From: sthibault at debian.org (Samuel Thibault) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 01:30:15 +0100 Subject: It is time for me to depart. In-Reply-To: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> References: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> Message-ID: <20171112003015.s3tssnlq67z7xajf@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr> Hello, Luke Yelavich, on mer. 08 nov. 2017 12:46:30 +1100, wrote: > It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to announce my > departure from free and open source software development. Uh :/ I'm very sorry about this. Of course I understand your decision, and understand how difficult it must be for you; you will for sure be missed. > I am sure I will return one day, with renewed motivation, enthusiasm, and a > desire to contribute again. I definitely hope so, and you'll always be welcome back! Cheers and all the best for your coming projects, Samuel From pdm at debian.org Sat Nov 18 17:01:01 2017 From: pdm at debian.org (Milan Zamazal) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:01:01 +0100 Subject: It is time for me to depart. References: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> Message-ID: <878tf3mshe.fsf@zamazal.org> >>>>> "LY" == Luke Yelavich writes: LY> It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to LY> announce my departure from free and open source software LY> development. [...] LY> I am sure I will return one day, with renewed motivation, LY> enthusiasm, and a desire to contribute again. Thank you for all your work and I hope you'll find your way back sooner or later! Regards, Milan From hanke at brailcom.org Mon Nov 20 13:24:35 2017 From: hanke at brailcom.org (Hynek Hanke) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:24:35 +0100 Subject: It is time for me to depart. In-Reply-To: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> References: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> Message-ID: Dear Luke, Dear Samuel, Dear All, We in BRAILCOM are very thankful for the good work that Luke Yelavich has put into the Speech Dispatcher project by contributing to its development as well as by guiding and helping other contributors and putting their improvements together to produce solid and stable releases. Luke, we thank you very much for all of this, it was not a small thing, and we wish you lot of luck with whatever projects or activities you are going to pursue in the future. At the same time, if you ever wish to contribute again to the collective effort that stands behind the development of Speech Dispatcher, you are warmly welcome, do not doubt it. Samuel Thibault stepped forward and kindly offered help with maintaining the Speech Dispatcher project in the future. We gladly accept this offer as Samuel is also a long-term contributor to the project, knowledgable not only about its technical implementation but also about its design, intents and philosophy. Also to you Samuel, we thank you very much and we wish you that this work brings you joy. We understand that the time that Samuel can spend on the project is limited and we hope others will continue helping with their contributions and improvements which are indispensable for this collaborative project. We still think that Speech Dispatcher is very relevant, perhaps even more than before. As both speech synthesis solutions and assistive technologies such as screen readers continue improving, user interactions with computers are getting more sophisticated, the need for effective coordination of assistive messages are getting evermore important. The same is true for having an easy and effective high-level interface between ATs and speech. The last thing that I want to mention, we think that it would be fitting at this point to move the project codebase to GitHub as it would make it technically easier to contribute and to track issues, especially for new people. We will prepare this transition and coordinate on it with Samuel. Kind regards to you all, Hynek & the team at BRAILCOM -- Mgr. Hynek Hanke | BRAILCOM, o.p.s. hanke at brailcom.org | http://www.brailcom.org > 8. 11. 2017 v 2:46, Luke Yelavich : > > It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to announce my > departure from free and open source software development. GNU/Linux and free > and open source software development has been a part of my life for well over > a decade, some high points being my employment at Canonical for over 9 years, > and the opportunity to maintain a free software project, Speech Dispatcher. > > I care very deeply about GNU/Linux accessibility, and free and open source > software. I strongly believe that the philosophy behind free software is key > to a better future for this world. However, I have lacked motivation of late, > and the current state of accessibility on GNU/Linux, as well as the lack of > funding for it, has not helped. I also would like to spend more time on other > tallants I have, which have been neglected somewhat until recently, and are > more likely to bring in a source of income in the future. > > I am sure I will return one day, with renewed motivation, enthusiasm, and a > desire to contribute again. I am also sure I will be keeping watch on what > transpires in this community, and since I will still be using GNU/Linux, I > may still submit a bug fix from time to time for anything that I find > particularly annoying. > > I step down from my positions as Vinux lead developer, and as Speech > Dispatcher maintainer with pride and joy at what has been achieved. I am > sorry that I have not fully helped to realize a renewed Vinux distribution > based on Fedora, but I am sure that no matter what direction the Vinux > project chooses to go, it will be lead well, and received well by the > community. > > I will be closing my patreon campaign. To those who have supported me > financially, I thank you deeply. Your support has been much appreciated. You > know who you are. > > I am so grateful for the time I have spent in this community. I have learnt > much, and have shared knowledge with others, and both the learning and > sharing have always been a pleasure and a joy. It has also been a pleasure to > talk to, and work with the free software community at large, but I would > particularly like to thank a few people. > > To Rob Whyte, leader of the Vinux project, I owe a particularly heart felt > thank you. You have been a rock and confidant when I have needed someone to > talk to, as well as someone who I could blow off steam with, when things have > been rough. It has been an honour, and a pleasure, to work with, and get to > know you. Feel free to contact me any time if you want to chat. > > To everybody at Brailcom, particularly Hynek Hanke, Tomas Cerha, and Jan > Buchal, I would like to thank for having given me the opportunity to maintain > the Speech Dispatcher project. I had many plans to improve Speech Dispatcher, > and I am sorry that these were not realized. I am sure the Speech Dispatcher > project will still be relevant and developed going forward, and I am sure a > maintainer can be found in the community. I wish that maintainer well. > > I also have to thank Canonical for giving me a chance and a job. I had the > opportunitiy to work with some wonderful people while there, and I am happy > to have learnt so much, particularly when it comes to building and developing > a GNU/Linux distribution. > > Finally, I would like to thank the community. It has been a pleasure talking > with you all, bouncing around ideas, discussing functionality, collectively > digging into problems and solving them together. This last decade would have > been for nothing if it weren't for all of us, whether we be users, > developers, helpers, doc writers, etc. For now, I plan to exit for a while, > and watch from the sidelines, but I do hope to return as a more active > community member again, in the future. > > I wish you all well. You will not be forgotten. > > With kindest regards and best wishes. > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speechd mailing list > Speechd at lists.freebsoft.org > http://lists.freebsoft.org/mailman/listinfo/speechd From mengualjeanphi at free.fr Mon Nov 20 13:43:41 2017 From: mengualjeanphi at free.fr (MENGUAL Jean-Philippe) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:43:41 +0100 Subject: It is time for me to depart. In-Reply-To: References: <20171108014630.GA29694@buffalo.yelavich.home> Message-ID: <2edf9ab4-0377-0f5a-bca1-7eec910e6059@free.fr> Hi, I am very happy to see speech-dispatcher maintained after this sad news of Luke's departure. Hypra will try helping as much as possible too. Just we recommend to inform the wide community when the migration to Github is effective, so that there is a large communicatin about it, as it is the best way to increase contributions for maintainance and improving. Best regards, signature_jp_2 Logo Hypra JEAN-PHILIPPE MENGUAL DIRECTEUR TECHNIQUE ET QUALITÉ 102, rue des poissonniers, 75018, Paris Tel : +331 84 73 06 61 Mob : +336 76 34 93 37 jpmengual at hypra.fr www.hypra.fr Facebook Hypra  Twitter Hypra Linkedin Jean-Philippe Le 20/11/2017 à 14:24, Hynek Hanke a écrit : > Dear Luke, Dear Samuel, Dear All, > > We in BRAILCOM are very thankful for the good work that Luke Yelavich has > put into the Speech Dispatcher project by contributing to its development > as well as by guiding and helping other contributors and putting their improvements > together to produce solid and stable releases. Luke, we thank you very much > for all of this, it was not a small thing, and we wish you lot of luck with whatever > projects or activities you are going to pursue in the future. At the same time, > if you ever wish to contribute again to the collective effort that stands behind > the development of Speech Dispatcher, you are warmly welcome, do not > doubt it. > > Samuel Thibault stepped forward and kindly offered help with maintaining > the Speech Dispatcher project in the future. We gladly accept this offer > as Samuel is also a long-term contributor to the project, knowledgable > not only about its technical implementation but also about its design, > intents and philosophy. Also to you Samuel, we thank you very much > and we wish you that this work brings you joy. > > We understand that the time that Samuel can spend on the project > is limited and we hope others will continue helping with their > contributions and improvements which are indispensable for this > collaborative project. > > We still think that Speech Dispatcher is very relevant, perhaps even more > than before. As both speech synthesis solutions and assistive technologies > such as screen readers continue improving, user interactions with computers > are getting more sophisticated, the need for effective coordination of assistive > messages are getting evermore important. The same is true for having an > easy and effective high-level interface between ATs and speech. > > The last thing that I want to mention, we think that it would be fitting > at this point to move the project codebase to GitHub as it would make > it technically easier to contribute and to track issues, especially for > new people. We will prepare this transition and coordinate on it > with Samuel. > > Kind regards to you all, > > Hynek & the team at BRAILCOM > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: