On 04/30/2018 12:12 PM, Brian wrote:
On Mon 30 Apr 2018 at 10:01:13 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:On 04/30/2018 08:38 AM, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:On Monday, April 30, 2018 09:06:09 AM Richard Owlett wrote: [snip]A partial solution might include "Summer of Documentation" projects along side of "Summer of Code".Yes, or encouraging people to contribute to HowTos, wikis, the Linux Documentation Project (which seems rather moribund at this point), and such. BTW, write to google--you might get them interested in a SOD project--or some other "flush" organization--maybe Amazon??I avoid Google! Having a strong preference for brick-n-mortar I've never had any contact with Amazon. Do they have any history of involvement in tech issues?You could say that: https://aws.amazon.com/
mea culpa mea culpaActually I didn't have in mind sales of technology, but more along the lines of Google's SOC claiming to foster the next generation of technologists.
A quick glance suggests that it is worth of further investigation. I did immediately find one thing in their favor.Having some visual, problems I surf with site defined colors AND backgrounds disabled. The site is ugly with that constraint active.
*HOWEVER* setting things to accept the designer's choices results in an attractive legible display.
A *RARE* and valuable occurrence. Thanks for the link. When corporations do "something right", they should be acknowledged. I'll browse further.