Comments on Plover, the Open Source Steno Program: Captioned: Mary Gardiner's Keynote at PyConAu

Oh, man. I wish I could. That's seriously temp...

2011-11-28T15:10:00.297-08:00

Oh, man. I wish I could. That's seriously tempting. Unfortunately, two of the three schools I work at have their spring break that week, but the other one has theirs the week before, so I'm almost certainly working, and there's not much chance I'll be able to get a sub. Fooey. But maybe Josh will be able to come; he lives in Oregon and he's more knowledgeable about the actual nuts and bolts dev stuff anyway. Could that be a possibility?

Glad there's some excitement building about Pl...

2011-11-27T20:15:20.169-08:00

Glad there's some excitement building about Plover - I haven't forgotten your amazing presentation and I just met the fabulous Mel at the Grace Hopper conference in Portland. I was sharing some of your presentation just this past weekend at a Women 2.0 Startup Weekend in SF. Everyone on my team (we were working on a company that would use the Kinect for language learning) loved the stats on learning steno typing (with regards to being able to type as fast as you think). Learning this and being able to help with Plover is still on my bucket list. Perhaps you'd be available/interested in coming to PyCon US this March in Santa Clara and doing a development sprint on it? I'd be happy to help make that happen!

(Oh, and I made the edit about the advisory board....

2011-11-26T15:36:25.060-08:00

(Oh, and I made the edit about the advisory board. Thanks for pointing that out.)

She first mentions Plover at 4:44. (All videos captioned with Universal Subtitles offer a timecoded transcript, which is really convenient, especially for deaf-blind users or people who don't have time to watch the whole video.)

Just for clarity: I am on the Advisory Boar...

2011-11-26T14:26:47.180-08:00

Just for clarity: I am on the Advisory Board of the Ada Initiative.

Oooh, about what timecode does she start talking about Plover?

-Sumana Harihareswara