Hi Carolyn,
I would forget about organizations for the blind for now. They already have
their projects and priorities which they don't want to change. Many younger
people don't find organizations for the blind relevant. We need to target a
different audience. I would do that by having very professionally created
videos on YouTube, and Facebook. People will be interested if they can see
and/or hear something in action. It's possible that a sighted person would
see something, and be interested enough in it to tell the blind people they
know about the optacon. The important thing is communicating with people
through social media rather than through official channels.
Once people know what an optacon is, and what it could do, then someone
could approach the open source community, and launch a funding campaign.
The funding would be the most difficult part, unless someone can promote the
work Charles has already done. Someone with business acumen would need to
do a cost-benefit analysis to see how realistic a new optacon would be.
What everyone can start doing is telling people about the optacon. Create
comments on Twitter and Facebook. If you have a sighted friend or family
member with a camera, get them to take a picture of you using an optacon,
and then share it publicly on your Facebook timelines. If people like your
post, then they may 'like' or comment on it, or share the post with people
on their timelines. This would generate some excitement and momentum to
move the project forward. If ACB and NFB see that there is enough momentum
behind this project, than they would want to get involved. A number opf
years ago someone wrote a good article for the Braille Forum about the
optacon, but the article didn't generate any enthusiasm. I think people
would rather see something in action than reading about it in a lengthy
article. Tweets and short blog entries could get the message across.
I don't feel qualified to write about the optacon. I haven't used one in 30
years, and don't have one either. If I had one, and knew how to use it
effectively, I could get someone to make a nice video to put up on my
Facebook page. I do hae a lot of Facebook friends, and also use Youtube and
twitter all the time.
Thanks,
Dan
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From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Carolyn Arnold
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 7:18 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: New Optacon
David, maybe, if you ever met the president of NFB at a convention or
somewhere and had your Optacon, you could convince him.
Best from,
Carolyn
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From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Moore
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 7:03 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] New Optacon
Hi all,
Has anyone heard from Charles lately and anything about the new Optacon
project?
I pray for Charles, because I know his health was not good.
Also, I have tried to talk to the president of the NFB, and he will not
respond to my messages about giving to a new Optacon project. I even told
him that I read math and science texts with the Optacon without the need for
software that costs thousands to do OCR on math symbols. I felt graphs, and
everything on the printed page of a math book with the Optacon, and I can
now show a sighted person what the math looks like, because I felt it with
the Optacon. I pray that Charles is okay, and still working on his dream.
Please let me know if you have heard anything new regarding the new Optacon!
Great to see you on here, Judy, and hearing about how you are reading
knitting instructions and charts.
That is great.
Take care, all.
David Moore
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